Patent ID: 7471295

Claim:
A method comprising: generating a polynary string representation, by a processor, for an entity defined by n relative coordinate values, n being an integer; and performing a data processing operation on the entity, by the processor, utilizing the polynary string representation; wherein the generating comprising: associating by the processor, n symbolic representations with said n relative coordinate values, selecting by the processor, the symbolic representation corresponding to the highest relative coordinate value as the first constituting member of the polynary string representation, computing by the processor, a constant value (F) by dividing (n−1) by n, computing by the processor, a variable value (G) by subtracting F from 1, subtracting by the processor, G from the current highest relative coordinate value, and selecting by the processor, the symbolic representation corresponding to the current highest relative coordinate value as the next constituting member of the polynary string representation.