hail monks - have any of you in your long years of wisdom come across an encoding for large numbers that works like this? (These are 8bit bytes)
here's 1:

64,8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,240,63

here's 2:

64,8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,64

and here's 131075:

64,8,0,0,0,0,0,24,0,0,65

All I can work out is that if you take the second byte from the right, a range of 16 for it will encode the range 2^n to 2^n+1. Where that range is bigger than 16 (most of the time), then the third byte to the right is called in, etc. - so 63 is:

64,8,0,0,0,0,0,0,128,79,64.

and 64:

64,8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,80,64

that interval of 128 progressively halves until it's 1 (for 4096) and then a further byte is used,etc. If you've ever seen something like it please put me out of my misery...

In reply to bizarre number encoding by Anonymous Monk

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