>First, it's probably faster. If you use the STR() function to convert, it's going to yield 10 characters. If you're going to pad them with leading zeroes, you'll also >have to have to call PADL(). BINTOC(), however, yields a string of a maximum of four characters. So right there, without the the call to PADL(), you're using >60% less characters, etc.

>Second, it's not really a binary conversion. Rather it converts the integer to a four character string representation of the binary value.

>BINTOC() (and CTOBIN(), which converts it back), I believe, were created for exactly this sort of usage.

Thanks, I can see you put some "thought" into this. :)