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6.8 Packed Data Values
Conventions for packing numeric data to save space have some subtleties.

Packed data is stored in a netCDF file using a smaller data type than the original data, for example, packing doubles into shorts. The netCDF library itself does not do packing and unpacking, but the Java-netCDF library will do automatic unpacking, see class VariableDS.

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