note 102403 added to language.operators.bitwise

From: Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 03:54:41 +0000
Subject: note 102403 added to language.operators.bitwise
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More referencing this for myself than anything... if you need to iterate through every possible binary combination where $n number of flags are set to 1 in a mask of $bits length: echo masksOf(3,10); function masksOf($n,$bits) { $u = pow(2,$bits)-1; //start value, full flags on. $masks = array(); while ($u>0) { $z = numflags($u); if ($z==$n) array_push($masks,$u); $u--; } return ($masks); } function numflags($n) { $k = 0; while ($n) { $k += $n & 1; $n = $n >> 1; } return ($k); // alternately: // $u = 0; // for ($k=1;$k<=$n;$k*=2) { // $u+=($n&$k?1:0); // } // return ($u); } ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 79.154.133.1 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.bitwise.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/102403 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102403/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102403/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102403/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102403/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102403/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102403/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/102403 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/102403 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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