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collation
- Mar 13, 2026 Zone Bits and Why EBCDIC Letters Are Not Contiguous How a byte splits into a zone nibble and a digit nibble, why that layout leaves gaps inside the alphabet, and what the gaps cost in collation and character-set conversion. computing history
- Nov 24, 2023 Separator Keys and Search Routing in Internal Nodes How internal B-tree pages choose the keys that route a search, what happens when a separator is too short to be unique, and how duplicate keys are ordered. databases