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Håkan,
You are correct. The answer is 17 bytes. For each following number, the HP-41C must maintain a null byte (0) to separate the second number from the first. In such a case, I would say that the null byte belongs in its entirety to the number that follows it, as it is there entirely for its purpose. But your way is correct as well and produces the same answer, it is only a different way of accounting for the extra byte.
Congratulations, I hereby declare you an HP-41C Master!
Dan
Edited: 12 Mar 2013, 9:58 a.m.