From: "Aaron D. Gifford" Date: 2011-04-08T01:30:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Packing and unpacking unsigned integers of arbitrary size as binary strings Nice, using the conversion via hex string is faster for number-to-binary-string conversion, but slower in string-to-number conversion on my system. I think I'll update and use it for number-to-string. Thanks! Aaron out.