84. The apparatus of claim 64 , wherein said first and second character expressions comprise first and second alphanumeric character strings.
64. An apparatus comprising: a computing platform, said computing platform being adapted to: concatenate binary expressions of individual ones of characters of a first character expression in a first binary string, said characters of said first character expression representing a first numerical value of a first numerical expression represented by a concatenation of said individual ones of characters of said first character expression according to a non-binary position-value notation; concatenate binary expressions of individual ones of characters of a second character expression in a second binary string, said characters of said second character expression representing a numerical value of a second numerical expression represented by a concatenation of said individual ones of characters of said second character expression according to said non-binary position-value notation; and determine a relationship between said first and second numerical values based, at least in part, on said first and second binary strings.