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📎 7.1.6. Unsigned Integer

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001 The Unsigned Integer datatype representation supports unsignde integer
002 numbers of arbitrary magnitude. It is represented as a sequence of octets
003 terminated by an octet with its most significant bit set to 0. The value of
004 the unsigned integer is stored in the least significant 7 bits of the octets
005 as a sequence of 7-bit bytes, with the least significant byte first.
006
007 EXI processors SHOULD support arbitrarily large Unsigned Integer values.
008 EXI processors MUST support Unsigned Integer values less than 21474883648.
009
010 The Unsigned Integer datatype representation can be decoded by going through
011 the following steps.
012
013 Example 7-1. Example algorithm for decoding an Unsigned Integer
014  1. Start with the initial value set to 0 and the initial multiplier set
015     to 1.
016  2. Read the next octet.
017  3. Multiply the value of the unsigned number represented by the 7 least
018     significant bits of the octet by the current multiplier and add the
019     result to the current value.
020  4. Multiply the multiplier by 128.
021  5. If the most significant bit of the octet was 1, go back to step 2.

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