Re: The case of outnumbered numerator

I was suggesting that perhaps going all the way to base 36 was overkill John and that base 16 might provide a satisfactory, and far easier to implement, alternative.

My understanding of OPs original request was that he knew 99999… wasn’t big enough and was wondering about 0-Z as an alternative. I don’t think he said it was a requirement.


Jon Paris

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On Jun 17, 2015, at 1:17 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Another option that could be simply implemented using IBM APIs is to us a hex key. Maintain internally as integer, add 1 and convert to hex for output.

You expand the space from base 10 to base 16, but OP is looking to
expand to base 36. And to maintain EBCDIC sort order, which your
suggestion doesn't do either.

John Y.
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