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Hello Ben, this is quite typical, as in binary would use often more bits for storage. In ascii each letter/number is a byte, so a float can be just a few bytes, but in binary you have at least four if not eight depending on your machine . So often a formatted ascii with floats using only a few digits is smaller than the binary. 'hope this makes sense, best wishes, Joerg ________________________________ From: netcdfgroup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [netcdfgroup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Benoist LAURENT [benoist.laurent@xxxxxxx] Sent: 07 October 2015 14:45 To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [netcdfgroup] binary larger than text file Dear netcdf users, I have data I want to convert to nc format. This data is integers, floating point numbers and text. I created a dummy nc file containing text and I realize the binary file is larger that the text file. How come ? See by yourself: convert the joint file to binary using ncgen -b foo.nc.txt Thank you in advance for your help. Ben _______________________________________________ netcdfgroup mailing list netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/
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