a problem to solve

[John Salerno]

John Salerno wrote:

> Anyway, any advice for how to proceed would be great! I hope I described 
> it well enough.

Ok, after reading the suggestions, I feel better about proceeding. But 
one question: how exactly do I come up with 32 different 20-bit integers 
for each switch? Do I need to figure out the bits for each one manually? 
And how is this written in Python? Using hex?