 things the other way around, with the least significat four
bits of the original value encoded into the first byte of the VLQ encoded value.

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            <div class="content"><div class='highlight'><pre>  VLQ_SHIFT            = <span class="number">5</span>
  VLQ_CONTINUATION_BIT = <span class="number">1</span> &lt;&lt; VLQ_SHIFT             <span class="comment"># 0010 0000</span>
  VLQ_VALUE_MASK       = VLQ_CONTINUATION_BIT - <span class="number">1</span>   <span cl