Extracting an nth bit from a decimal

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sibusiso_moyo
1 yr ago
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I'm trying to use the right shift (>>) operator to extract an nth bit from a decimal and its giving me an error: Value was either too large or too small for a UInt16".

Here is an example : 62914560 >> 0

How do I solve this one?

- laruer
- 11 mths ago
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If you want to do a right shift you can use a combination of the Floor and Pow functions.

Floor(number / Pow(2,shift))

In the case of your example, let's do a right shift of 5 bits:

Floor(62914560 / Pow(2,5)) = 1966080

Which is the same as doing:

62914560 >> 5

This can be used in a calculation or in a value transform.