- ...Seaman
- IRAF Group,
National Optical Astronomy Observatories, seaman@noao.edu
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- ...Pence
- HEASARC, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
pence@tetra.gsfc.nasa.gov
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- ...group
- Making allowance for the dual zeroes,
1's complement addition and multiplication also form an integral
domain over the N-bit unsigned integers, see ref. 21, for example.
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- ...permitted.
- The encoding algorithm described in
§3.4 and §3.5 only uses the characters, 0-9, A-Z and a-r,
as expressed in Figure 1.
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- ...checksum.
- This estimate may not be exactly
right due to binary and higher order interactions between the characters
from excluding the intervening punctuation characters from the strict
alpha-numeric encoding.
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- ...NOAO
- The National Optical Astronomy Observatories are operated
by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. under
cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
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