Again, good problem, but it would be better if base-10 or base-2 was adopted as a standard at the description
"The hard way to go about it, but it worked like a charm!" :-)
If you think this one is ugly (and I agree 100% it is!) you should have seen my first few attempts, which included using "typecast" to get the numbers as uint64s and trying to compare them that way. At least this one worked...eventually.
James, actually, it's interesting on Cody to get to see things from another point of view. Kudos for original thinking :-) —DIV
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