RE: Incrementing Character Fields

["Brendan Bispham" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


-----Original Message-----
How about packing the numbers?

-----Original Message-----
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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