Er, actually, the minimum is 16 bytes. Not only are the PVX, CUR and LEN not used, they're not even allocated on any scalar that has never been used as a string. The allocator actually allocates a block of contiguous integers, and returns a fake Any pointer to where the PVX would be if there were one, so that the access code doesn't have to have a conditional offset. If you looked in the PVX, CUR and LEN of a bare integer, you'd actually find the integers of other previously constructed values.

Larry