interpretting-version-number-from-max-version-message

Actually, I'd do the following, just on the principle that sprintf, atoi, etc. are surprisingly complex operations internally and why use complex operations when simple arithmetic will do?

(Actually, I'd really do this all with bit-manipulation operations, but then I'd probably have to explain the logic behind bit manipulation. I'm assuming people can figure out what's going on here.)

all i can say is that it's quite cool to know what is happening arithmetically, so thanks for that

Interpretting version number from max version message