function dec = binBinaryToDec(bin)
% dec = binBinaryToDec(bin)
% converts binary vectors to corresponding decimal numbers
% last position is 2^0, first is 2^n-1
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% Code from the paper: 'Generating spike-trains with specified
% correlations', Macke et al., submitted to Neural Computation
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% www.kyb.mpg.de/bethgegroup/code/efficientsampling
bb = (size(bin,1)-1):-1:0;
dec = (2.^bb) * (bin>0);
