Re: The case of outnumbered numerator

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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