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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:21:22 -0500
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On 2/9/2011 1:59 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> And your macro subtracts one from the bit number.

No, from the ordinal :-)

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number_%28linguistics%29>