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Eliud's Eggs

Eliud's Eggs

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Introduction

Your friend Eliud inherited a farm from her grandma Tigist. Her granny was an inventor and had a tendency to build things in an overly complicated manner. The chicken coop has a digital display showing an encoded number representing the positions of all eggs that could be picked up.

Eliud is asking you to write a program that shows the actual number of eggs in the coop.

The position information encoding is calculated as follows:

  1. Scan the potential egg-laying spots and mark down a 1 for an existing egg or a 0 for an empty spot.
  2. Convert the number from binary to decimal.
  3. Show the result on the display.

Example 1:

Chicken Coop:
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _
|E| |E|E| | |E|

Resulting Binary:
 1 0 1 1 0 0 1

Decimal number on the display:
89

Actual eggs in the coop:
4

Example 2:

Chicken Coop:
 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| | | |E| | | | |

Resulting Binary:
 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

Decimal number on the display:
16

Actual eggs in the coop:
1

Instructions

Your task is to count the number of 1 bits in the binary representation of a number.

Restrictions

Keep your hands off that bit-count functionality provided by your standard library! Solve this one yourself using other basic tools instead.

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