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The population count (or popcount) of a specific value is the number of set bits in that value. For example, the population count of 0x0F0F, 0x1111, and 0x00 are 8, 4, and 0 respectively.

Calculating the population count efficiently has widely studied with both software and hardware implementations provided by many popular microprocessors.

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