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From: "tar" <tar@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
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Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> writes:

> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:46:10 -0800 (PST), Katak
> <vampireex@hotmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
> said :
> 
> >   double exponent = Math.pow(2, power);
> >         result += ((bin.charAt(i) - 48) * (exponent));
> 
> or even better just shift (bin.charAt(i) - '0') directly by i.

or even better:

   shift  Character.digit(bin.charAt(i),2)

-- 
Thomas A. Russ,  USC/Information Sciences Institute

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