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+# Bits
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+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rfourquet/Bits.jl.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rfourquet/Bits.jl)
+
+This package implements functions to play with bits, of integers, and of floats to a certain extent.
+For example:
+```julia
+julia> bits(0b110101011)
+|00000001 10101011|
+
+julia> ans[1:4]
+|1011|
+```
+
+Currently, the following functions are exported: `bit`, `bits`, `bitsize`, `mask`, `masked`, `tstbit`.
+They have a docstring, but no HTML documentation is available yet.
+
+In these functions, the right-most bit of a value has index `1`, but in some applications it's more natural for it to have index `0`.
+So the functions will likely be also implemented with indexes starting at `0`, and both alternatives will be available.
+It's possible that the default will be changed.