Problem Statement: encoding data on a medium ...efficiency, effective-ness leveraging bit based data encoding , leveraging numerical-constants ...code-based comparision further to as published in projects.pdf , ...as advocated on this uri/url. Opportunity : example in GUI based operating system ...interfaces to assign permission's to various object's,entities. eg: allocation of permission on a folder/virtual-folder i.e. access to user's ...classification of user's based on various criteria taking the above as a scenario ...scope context of evaluation of the scope ...permission on a object/entity inter/intra relationship's between these entities ...ability to encode, represent ...efficiently evaluate in the context. difference between a directory , folder and a virtual-folder ...amount of information that needs to be encoded in representing the object. use-case-modeled scope for the above context : understanding 'n' bit architecture computing model. --------------------------------------------- 1) in the context using dynamically evaluatable constants in a drop down the interface used to allocate the permissions (i.e. all the list of value's in a allocatable drop-down options interface are evaluatable constants) do the summation of the constants represent effective permissions on the object, if summation how are the various classes or groups at each 'summation' level represented. 2) perl anonymous hash , array ...iteration evolution....understanding a in-memory database , ram-disk , perl-data::dumper ...refer to some of the work's executed at veritas corp. 3) understanding and evaluating 1),2) vis a vis ...a bit based representation....understanding evaluation of 'umask' amount of information encodable in a byte-length. Note: The above problem statement having been encountered in various scenarios and detailed in various 'Proof of concepts' as mentioned in http://uk.geocities.com/ravivenkatus/projects.pdf http://ravishankarkv.tripod.com/projects.pdf ....apply appropriate 'use-case' modeling, rationalize and arrive at a workable and feasible solution both commercially and techinically viable.