A question

[IrvingYan]

A question

[IrvingYan]

What does
long firstFiveBitsMask = 0xf800000000000000l;
mean?

[kungfoo]

It is a mask that selects the first five bits when used in a bitwise operation.

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[kungfoo]

You can see, five bits of the hash make up one character in the base32 encoding. On Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 12:27 Silvio Heuberger <silvio.heuberger@gmail.com wrote:

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It is a mask that selects the first five bits when used in a bitwise operation. On Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 03:52 闫东 ***@***.*** wrote: > What does > long firstFiveBitsMask = 0xf800000000000000l; > mean? > > — > You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <#35 (comment)>, > or mute the thread > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACgKMkuebASln2Aa3WOX0ucEdNmYYkbks5u6FhegaJpZM4ZXgLY> > . >

[kungfoo]

I think that should answer your question. Please reopen if it's still unclear.

[IrvingYan]

thanks so much ：）