Jay: >Businesses that need to record and display really huge integers, like >credit card transaction numbers, use base 36, where a single digit >(character) can represent up to decimal 36. (64 would be possible with >both upper and lower case, plus a symbol or two.) > >If you decide to do this, watch out. Programmers at Citibank recently >were forced by customer complaints into a major re-programming project >because their numbers sometimes contained dirty words! Why not use a different font? Change the vowels to something else (i.e., star, square, wavy lines, dog/fire hydrant, etc.)? tedd ___________________________________________________________________ <mailto:tedd@...> http://sperling.com/