Tuesday, February 14, 2012

[idrohmsr] Expressing 32-bit numbers concisely

A 32-bit number is 4 digits in base 256.

digitsbase
31626
4256
585
641
724
816
912
1010

A seven-letter word (perhaps broken into 3+4 like phone numbers) in NATO phonetic (A-X) seems elegantly appealing. Big-endian WLJJEKP is the last, WLJJEKQ the first unused (so initial X entirely unused). Little-endian PKEJJLW and QKEJJLW.

Maybe skipping Q and X is a better idea to be able to form more words. AWAHKFK NUTFZSD TZPNTCW ISHHNRA

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