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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: number bases
Date: 1999/11/01
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In article <381D4C88.B5E8BBE7@interact.net.au>,
  G <Dizzy@interact.net.au> wrote:
> If someone decides to represent all or the majority of
integers in a
> program unit with base 2
> or
> 16

are you talking about Machine_Radix here???

> - does this in any way optimise the code.  Which is to say -
does it
> take less space in memory and is it more efficient (does it
run faster)
> to represent integers (floats, whatever) in a form closer to
the machine
> architecture/structure (i.e. binary) ?


This is an implementation and not a language question, obviously
specifying a machine radix of 10 on a non-decimal machines is
likely to degrade performance if the implementation follows
the specification (it is not required to).


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