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[robison at uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU]

> CHALLENGE:  Come up with a scheme for representing numbers, and a sorting
> scheme in which numbers sort naturally.  Your scheme must deal with variable
> length character strings and variable size numbers.  That is, you cannot
> requires strings to be padded with nulls, or numbers to be padded with zeros.

...
-4 = AAAAZ
-3 = AAAZ
-2 = AAZ
-1 = AZ 
 0 = M 
 1 = Z
 2 = ZZ
 3 = ZZZ
 4 = ZZZZ
...

Arch D. Robison
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign