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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 02:25:19 +1100
Subject: Re: python implementation of a new integer encoding algorithm.
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
>> Sure. Not sure how you'd cope with an interior FFFF in the stream
>> without drastically losing efficiency, though.
>
>
> That's why it was base 65535, not 65536.

Doh. Yeah. I autocorrected in my head, but yes, base 65535 is safe.

ChrisA