Question

I have an email from a developer in which he says:

As you may know 1110000000000000 means 1+2+4

I won’t be able to contact him for a few days. Can anyone else explain how that is possible?

Numbers appear to be turned into binary using the following function:

function toBinaryString(bitmask)
tvar2 = 0
tvar3 = 1
tvar1 = ""
do while tvar2 < 16 
    if (bitmask and tvar3) > 0 then
        tvar1 = tvar1 & "1"
    else
        tvar1 = tvar1 & "0"
    end if
    tvar3 = tvar3 * 2
    tvar2 = tvar2 + 1
loop
toBinaryString = tvar1
end function 

Answer 1

It’s little endian notation (Wiki). Basicaly the least significant bits appear on the left, unlike big endian notation (which is what most people think of when talking about binary).

As such the first bit represents 0^2, then 1^2, 2^2 etc. (so 1 + 2 + 4).