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
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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
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