title: Alpha Characters to 32-bit integer
body: <p>I was going through the PluralSight tutorial on hashtables/string hashing and came across an example of hashing called "folding" in which the presenter proceeded to, in groups of four, convert string characters to 32-bit integers.  </p>
  
  <p>In the first 4 characters, the letters "lore" he states "And when you take the bytes of those characters and then just cram them together into a 32-bit value, we end up with a 1.7 billion value", and he presents the number, "1701998444".</p>
  
  <p>How did he come up with "1701998444" from the letters "lore"?</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/T9NPb.jpg" alt="theimage"></p>