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I'm studying open asset protocol, however I have no idea how to read asset quantity list.

The Open Assets Protocol documentation tells that data in marker output 

0xac 0x02 0x00 0xe5 0x8e 0x26

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The asset quantity list:
                                   - '0xac 0x02' means output 0 has an asset quantity of 300.
                                   - Output 1 is skipped and has an asset quantity of 0
                                     because it is the marker output.
                                   - '0x00' means output 2 has an asset quantity of 0.
                                   - '0xe5 0x8e 0x26' means output 3 has an asset quantity of 624,485.
                                   - Outputs after output 3 (if any) have an asset quantity of 0."

Could you tell me how they calculate quantity of assets by the marker output? I thought that 0xac is 13(c)*16^0 + 10(a)*16^1 = 173, but it seems the idea is not correct.

Toshi
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According to the Open Assets Protocol Spec, the amounts are encoded in something called the unsigned LEB128 encoding. So for 300 the binary looks like:

100101100

You have to pad to a multiple of 7 (we have 9 bits, so this becomes 14):

00000100101100

Now split into groups of 7:

0000010 0101100

Add in a 0 bit for the very first one, and 1 for every other group of 7:

00000010 10101100

In hex, this is:

0x02 0xac

Put this in Little Endian order:

0xac 0x02

You can do the same for the 624,485 number and get the 0xe5 0x8e 0x26.

Jimmy Song
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