Re: Incrementing Character Fields

[leif@xxxxxxx]

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

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From: Brendan Bispham <midrangel@black-and-blue.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 11:35 AM
Subject: RE: Incrementing Character Fields


>
> A problem along the same lines.....
>
> What is the minimum number of alphanumeric characters required to represent
> a decimal number?
>
> For instance, a 10 digit number represented by characters 0-9 and A-B -
thus
> allowing the resulting number to become an object name.
>
> A simple RPG XLATE would translate 0 to A, 1 to B...9 to J... but can
anyone
> think of a method that requires less characters than the original?
>
>
> Brendan Bispham
>
> Dean wrote:
> >Here's an interesting exercise!  I'd swear that I've seen this done in RPG
> >many moons ago, but the only practical example I can recall is from a long
> >dead platform using an equally long dead version of BASIC.  Say you have a
> >three character alpha field that needs to be incremented progressively
> like a
> >number (e.g., AAA, AAB, AAC...ABA, ABB, ABC...ZZX, ZZY, ZZZ).  Any ideas
> on
> >how this could be done in either RPG or RPGLE?
>
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