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Table 1 Hexadecimal encoding for integer values in the delta-list encoding

From: SeqOthello: querying RNA-seq experiments at scale

Integer value z

Encoded binary representation

Hexadecimal value

Encoded length in bits

0 ≤ z < 8

(1xxx)2

0x8  z

4

8 ≤ z < 64

(01xxxxxx)2

0x40  z

8

64 ≤ z < 512

(001xxxxxxxxx)2

0x200 z

12

512 ≤ z < 4096

(0001xxxxxxxxxxxx)2

0x1000 z

16

4096 ≤ z

(0000xxxxxxxxxx…)2

0x0000  z

32