Byte by Byte Decoding

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For numbers up to 4 bytes you can use this function:

Code:

function getbyte(value, byte)
  return bit.band(bit.rshift(value, byte * 8), 0xFF)
end

value = 46124

b0 = getbyte(value, 0) -- 44
b1 = getbyte(value, 1) -- 180
b2 = getbyte(value, 2) -- 0