From a850751d486b38e0d940180d6bd397d5b2f49715 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: moneroexamples <moneroexamples@tuta.io>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 06:21:44 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] api decoding example provided

---
 README.md | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 20b5998..2c2a7d6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -736,7 +736,14 @@ curl  -w "\n" -X GET "http://139.162.32.245:8081/api/version"
 }
 ```
 
-api number is store as `uint32_t`. 
+api number is store as `uint32_t`. In this case `65536` represents 
+major version 1 and minor version 0.
+In JavaScript to get these numbers, one can do as follows:
+
+```javascript
+var api_major = response.data.api >> 16;
+var api_minor = response.data.api & 0xffff;
+```
 
 #### api/rawblock/<block_number|block_hash>