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<div class="block">Functionalities for extracting numeric IDs from Hadoop taskIDs and other
 things related to modification of IDs.
 
 NOTE: Many those functionalities rely on a big endian format. This is always given because 
 Java stores everything as big endian, independent of the platform. Furthermore, we
 rely on Long.MAX_VALUE in order to prevent numeric overflows with regard to signed data types.</div>
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