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Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:45:22 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.28 and partitions
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Hi,

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> More powerful?

Well, compared to ASCII: it's unlikely that you meet a j letter or a \033 
in the size string.

I intended something such as GMP. We'd neet special maths functions for 
this crap then, of course, but it might be worth it. The basics is just 
"If field[n] overflows, push the overhead into field[n+1]"...

But you're of course right here that endianness is an issue here.

			Thunder
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