22. An apparatus comprising: means, comprising one or more processors, for concatenating 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; means, comprising said one or more processors, for concatenating 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 second numerical value of a second numerical expression represented by a concatenation of said individual ones of characters of said second character expression according to a non-binary position-value notation; and means, comprising said one or more processors, for determining a relationship between said first and second numerical values based, at least in part, on said first and second binary strings.
36. The apparatus of claim 22 , wherein said binary expressions of said characters comprise eight bit strings selected from a mapping of eight bit strings to characters, said eight bit strings comprising a partial ordering of said strings with respect to an ordering of a sequence of said characters.