RE: Incrementing Character Fields

Unfortunately, if you pack the numbers you'll get combinations such as '00'
which don't translate to alphanumeric characters.

Similarly, if you use binary, you'll get characters which can't be used
within a simple name.

I think base 32 is the best I have come up with, as 26 alphabetic characters
and 10 digits mean that you can cover 32 different characters? In theory -
fine, but in practise - I'm lost.

Brendan Bispham


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How about packing the numbers?

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easy: a 32-bit binary number (10 decimal digits) can clearly be represented
by 4 8-bit characters.

Brendan Bispham wrote:
>
> A problem along the same lines.....
>
> What is the minimum number of alphanumeric characters required to
represent
> a decimal number?
>

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