of course... I never thought that text files to reduce file sizes is sane... Maybe because I don't want to write in a wishy-washy way as if I was stepping into

of course... I never thought that text files to reduce file sizes is sane... Maybe because I don't want to write in a wishy-washy way as if I was stepping into a mine field I came across like that [look at my first comment... I think I started as "I know it is counterintuitive" - I wanted to point point out the binary (as naturally interpreted: storing floats/doubles) does not necessarily mean smaller file sizes for files generated by humans.