for regular integers, memory representation is straightforward _4 ]\ a. i. 0 ( 3!:1) ] 2147483647 224 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 127 255 255 255
_4 ]\ a. i. 0 ( 3!:1) ] 2147483647x 224 0 0 0 0 0 0 64 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 224 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 14 63 0 0 18 140 0 0 0 21 weird enough, but its: |. 256 #. inv 10000 #. inv 2147483647 14 63 18 140 0 21 in the last 3 bytes the header part is a 5 word header 224 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 lines 1 2 4 appear to be fixed. lines 3 and 5 appear to both point to the count of data words that follow. I guess the format is optimized for decimal display, but its using 64 bits per base 10000 digit. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
