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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: How to put 200 into an integer sub-type of 16 bits (code
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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:16:10 +0000
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On 16 Jan 2009 10:11:47 +0100, Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
wrote:

>Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>
>> But 200 fits into one byte! - cries his poor mind...
>
>Actually it fits in one bit - using a suitable declaration of the type.
>
>More seriously; I still haven't been able to figure out exactly what
>problem the OP really is trying to solve.

I suspect it may be a software implementation of a "long stand"

- Brian