From: "Tom Finch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rick McGowan wrote: > > >What is the problem you are trying to solve by encoding 16 things in a > >row? > > To answer this, it is better to have 16 in a row as it makes computation of a > numeric value from the character value easier and more straightforward. A > different proposal could be made for just 6 extra digits for hexadecimal if it > is determined that space is really at a premium. But then you lose the > unambiguousness of sixteen separate characters.
Or, since the proposal has already been rejected you can just write the conversion code using the existing numbers/letters and call it a day? :-) MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/
