String representations of numeric values

[Rob Seaman]

On Apr 20, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Ed Shaya wrote:

> Although I would prefer to use hh mm ss.ssssssss since quad  
> precision is way overkill.

Obviously not overkill if your mission requires this level of  
precision.  Sexigesimal notation is one simple and familiar way to  
implement a hierarchical coordinate mapping scheme to partition the  
high order and low order bits (or bytes or words or strings) for  
easier handling.  One size rarely fits all.

Rob