On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Ryan Munson <ryan.barrac...@elboardo.com> wrote: > it to binary. (Hint: You may want to use the bitwise and operator 8 times.) > > Since 256 is 2^8, I am assuming using a computation of 2**8 is involved.
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