August 1960 - Vol. 3 No. 8

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Features

Research and Advances

A short study of notation efficiency

This comparison indicates that an 8-bit character set, with provision for storing two 4-bit decimal digits in one character position, is a more efficient form of representation than the 6-bit character set, at least for a majority of common applications. This 8(4) representation has several other advantages.

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