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From: robison@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Byte order (or you are both wro
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Date: Tue, 15-Apr-86 17:23:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 15 17:23:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU!robison    Apr 15 16:23:00 1986


> CHALLENGE:  Come up with a scheme for representing numbers, and a sorting
> scheme in which numbers sort naturally.  Your scheme must deal with variable
> length character strings and variable size numbers.  That is, you cannot
> requires strings to be padded with nulls, or numbers to be padded with zeros.

...
-4 = AAAAZ
-3 = AAAZ
-2 = AAZ
-1 = AZ 
 0 = M 
 1 = Z
 2 = ZZ
 3 = ZZZ
 4 = ZZZZ
...

Arch D. Robison
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign