scott wrote:
> I don't know about you, but if I want to get a huge (>8bit) number from 
> the bytes, I would do this:

HugeInt mhi = 0;
for (b = length - 1; 0 <= b; b--)
   mhi = (mhi * 256) + arrayofbytes[b];


I was amused once when I posted something in the Ada forum where I wrote 
something like
    x = c0 * 256 + c1;
and they complimented me on having the "Ada mindset" because I didn't use a 
shift operator to build the integer. I said "I do that in C also. Every 
compiler can handle that these days."

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