Little help calculating difficulty

[brian_armstrong]

Hi,

My GetNextWorkRequired calculation seems to be failing on Block 40,319 (previous ones worked fine)

Block 40,320 should go to 0x1c654657 difficulty bits, but my calculation is coming to 0x1d006546

Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong here?  I based this on GetNextWorkRequired in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/main.cpp#L762 :
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Block 38,304 has time 1265319794
http://blockexplorer.com/b/38304

Block 40,319 has time 1266190073
http://blockexplorer.com/b/40319

actual = 1266190073 - 1265319794
actual = 870279
target = 1209600   (two weeks)

(didn't change more than 4x or 1/4 of target so no adjustment needed here)

Block 40,319 has difficulty 486575299 which decodes to
"000000008cc30000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

retarget = 0x000000008cc30000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 * actual / target
retarget = 0x00000000654657a76a76a76a76a76a76a76a76a76a76a76a76a76a76a76a76a7

encoding retarget back to bits gives 486565190 or 0x1d006546

Any ideas?  Really appreciate it - thanks!

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[brian_armstrong]

Figured it out - it was a problem with how I was converting to compact form.