How to Read Bytes from a file

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

<gregpinero at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Bart.  That's perfect.  The other suggestion was to precompute
> count1 for all possible bytes, I guess that's 0-256, right?

0 to 255 inclusive, actually - that is 256 numbers...

The largest number representable in a byte is 255

eight bits, of value 128,64,32,16,8,4,2,1

Their sum is 255...

And then there is zero.

- Hendrik