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Patent Application Number: 2005218001

Binary representation of number based on processor word size

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CLAIM 1

A method of converting a number to a binary representation, the method comprising the step of: converting a predetermined size segment of a number to a binary representation, the predetermined size segment based on a processor word size.

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Mik Clarke (over 2 years ago)

With regard to the DPD prior art (which is summarized on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Densely_packed_decimal ) you could argue that the filing is about selecting an appropriate length of DPD based upon the wordsize of the target CPU - useful if your on a server building binary data to be sent to hetrogeneous CPUs. Does seem a bit obvious though - Encode the data for the 8 bit CPU using an 8bit encoding, for the 16 bit using a 16 bit encoding etc... This is basically Claim 1, although they present it as a static choice. Essentially wrapping DPD in a select (wordsize)... more...

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