Kotlin decomposing numbers into powers of 2 - kotlin

Question

Hi I am writing an app in kotlin and need to decompose a number into powers of 2.
I have already done this in c#, PHP and swift but kotlin works differently somehow.
having researched this I believe it is something to do with the numbers in my code going negative somewhere and that the solution lies in declaring one or more of the variable as "Long" to prevent this from happening but i have not been able to figure out how to do this.
here is my code:
var salads = StringBuilder()
var value = 127
var j=0
while (j < 256) {
var mask = 1 shl j
if(value != 0 && mask != 0) {
salads.append(mask)
salads.append(",")
}
j += 1
}
// salads = (salads.dropLast()) // removes the final ","
println("Salads = $salads")
This shoud output the following:
1,2,4,8,16,32,64
What I actually get is:
1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16384,32768,65536,131072,262144,524288,1048576,2097152,4194304,8388608,16777216,33554432,67108864,134217728,268435456,536870912,1073741824,-2147483648,1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16384,32768,65536,131072,262144,524288,1048576,2097152,4194304,8388608,16777216,33554432,67108864,134217728,268435456,536870912,1073741824,-2147483648,1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16384,32768,65536,131072,262144,524288,1048576,2097152,4194304,8388608,16777216,33554432,67108864,134217728,268435456,536870912,1073741824,-2147483648,1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16384,32768,65536,131072,262144,524288,1048576,2097152,4194304,8388608,16777216,33554432,67108864,134217728,268435456,536870912,1073741824,-2147483648,1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16384,32768,65536,131072,262144,524288,1048576,2097152,4194304,8388608,16777216,33554432,67108864,134217728,268435456,536870912,1073741824,-2147483648,1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16384,32768,65536,131072,262144,524288,1048576,2097152,4194304,8388608,16777216,33554432,67108864,134217728,268435456,536870912,1073741824,-2147483648,1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16384,32768,65536,131072,262144,524288,1048576,2097152,4194304,8388608,16777216,33554432,67108864,134217728,268435456,536870912,1073741824,-2147483648,1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096,8192,16384,32768,65536,131072,262144,524288,1048576,2097152,4194304,8388608,16777216,33554432,67108864,134217728,268435456,536870912,1073741824,-2147483648,
Any ideas?

Answer 1

This works for the one input that you specified, at the very least:
fun powersOfTwo(value :Long): String {
val result = ArrayList<String>()
var i = 0
var lastMask = 0
while (lastMask < value) {
val mask = 1 shl i
if (value != 0.toLong() && mask < value) {
result.add(mask.toString())
}
lastMask = mask
i += 1
}
return result.joinToString(",")
}
Ran it in a unit test:
#Test
fun addition_isCorrect() {
val result = powersOfTwo(127)
assertEquals("1,2,4,8,16,32,64", result)
}
Test passed.

Answer 2

You can get a list of all powers of two that fit in Int and test each of them for whether the value contains it with the infix function and:
val value = 126
val powersOfTwo = (0 until Int.SIZE_BITS).map { n -> 1 shl n }
println(powersOfTwo.filter { p -> value and p != 0}.joinToString(","))
// prints: 2,4,8,16,32,64
See the entire code in Kotlin playground: https://pl.kotl.in/f4CZtmCyI

Answer 3

Hi I finally managed to get this working properly:
fun decomposeByTwo(value :Int): String {
val result = ArrayList<String>()
var value = value
var j = 0
while (j < 256) {
var mask = 1 shl j
if ((value and mask) != 0) {
value -= mask
result.add(mask.toString())
}
j += 1
}
return result.toString()
}
I hope this helps someone trying to get a handle on bitwise options!

Answer 4

Somehow you want to do the "bitwise AND" of "value" and "mask" to determine if the j-th bit of "value" is set. I think you just forgot that test in your kotlin implementation.