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1. How to create a string representing a Java long as though it were unsigned 64-bit value    stackoverflow.com

My component is handed a long value that I later use as a key into a cache. The key itself is a string representation of the long value as if it ...

2. >> (Propagating the sign bit)    coderanch.com

Ok, like I have mentioned in the 'meaningless drivel' forum, I am not really new to Java, but at the same time I am...long story. Anyways, I am using the book "Ivor Horton's Beginning Java 2, SDK 1.4 edition,(Wrox)" and I am only in chapter 2. They are describing the shift operators, and I understand the <<, and >>> operators, but ...