Hi,

recently i am having some problems with storing some numbers. More precisely I have a range of numbers all between 1 and 100. Example: 


1,5,6,12,17,43,56,73,98

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what i need to do is to encode this array using at mose 2 bytes. A simple encoding scheme would be to create a bit string and then flip 0's to 1's at the above stated positions. However, a bit-string for this array is appx. 13 bytes which is 11 more then i have at my disposal. Generally there is always a trade-off between memory and speed. This time speed is not extremely important for me. so i was wondering if someone knows and is willing to share any hashing scheme, or something that could help me to squeeze 13 bytes into 2.

thank you

baxy

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