On Dec 6, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Gregory Stark wrote:
> It needs to store the number of bits present as well. Otherwise it
> wouldn't be
> able to tell apart B'1' and B'01' ... B'00000001'
...
> Only in the sense that numeric also has to store some meta data as
> well like
> the weight and display precision.
Hrm... perhaps that's another worthwhile target for the varvarlena
technique...
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