Take a number and think of all the possible ways you can encode them. Make up some new rules because you feel like it. Oh wait, maybe you should throw in some custom encoding because it feels right. That pretty much sums for the 50 ways you can encode numbers in Packed Encoding Rules.
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PERversity in Numbers
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PERversity at it’s worst
Every now and then you look back and think about all the time you spent working on something that was so pointlessly convoluted and intentionally perverse, you wonder what’s wrong with the world. You heard me kvetch about ASN. Well, it’s another incarnation of the same beast, except it’s PER. It, BTW, stands for Perverse Encoding Rules. The true 50-ways-to-encode-your-lover.
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