Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ public class Main { /** * Expert: Longs are stored at lower precision by shifting off lower bits. The shift count is * stored as <code>SHIFT_START_LONG+shift</code> in the first character */ public static final char SHIFT_START_LONG = (char) 0x20; public static double prefixCodedToDouble(String val) { return sortableLongToDouble(prefixCodedToLong(val)); } /** * Converts a sortable <code>long</code> back to a <code>double</code>. * @see #doubleToSortableLong */ public static double sortableLongToDouble(long val) { if (val < 0) val ^= 0x7fffffffffffffffL; return Double.longBitsToDouble(val); } public static long prefixCodedToLong(final String prefixCoded) { final int shift = prefixCoded.charAt(0) - SHIFT_START_LONG; if (shift > 63 || shift < 0) throw new NumberFormatException( "Invalid shift value in prefixCoded string (is encoded value really a LONG?)"); long sortableBits = 0L; for (int i = 1, len = prefixCoded.length(); i < len; i++) { sortableBits <<= 7; final char ch = prefixCoded.charAt(i); if (ch > 0x7f) { throw new NumberFormatException("Invalid prefixCoded numerical value representation (char " + Integer.toHexString(ch) + " at position " + i + " is invalid)"); } sortableBits |= ch; } return (sortableBits << shift) ^ 0x8000000000000000L; } }