16 bit numbers?

[Dar Scott]

On Jun 26, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Cubist at aol.com wrote:

>    All this stuff about binaryEncode and unicode and so on is all very 
> well
> and good, but nobody seems to have actually addressed the *general* 
> problem of
> converting numbers from one base to another.

To add to the confusion, I tend to use "binary" two ways.  Sometimes I 
mean the bits and bytes of low-level representation.  Other times I 
mean the base of a numeral, the text to represent a number.

Dar Scott