11 Oct
2006
11 Oct
'06
12:38 p.m.
On 10/11/2006 at 1:08 PM woodelf wrote:
Not really. IBM has patented a way of packing 2
decimal
digits into 7 binary bits.Of course more hardware is needed
but that is patented too.
You know, that's not particularly memory-efficient. Packing 6 digits into
20 bits is better.
Cheers,
Chuck