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Note in-line.
Note in-line.
> Depends where you want the efficiency - from an Oracle
> viewpoint,
> 0 is stored as 0x1 0x80
> 1 is stored as 0x2 0xC1 0x02
> which is arguably less efficient than the character equivalent.
Thanks.
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