On 2005-08-09, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >>>Ex #1) 333-3333 >>>Hex On disk: 00 00 00 80 6a 6e 49 41 >>> >>>Ex #2) 666-6666 >>>Hex On disk: 00 00 00 80 6a 6e 59 41 >> >> So there's only a 1-bit different between the on-disk >> representation of 333-3333 and 666-6666. >> >> That sounds pretty unlikely. Are you 100% sure you're looking >> at the correct bytes? > > Perhaps the one bit is an exponent -- some kind of floating point > based format? That matches the doubling of all digits.
That would just be sick. I can't imagine anybody on an 8-bit CPU using FP for a phone number. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
