Given two numbers A and B. Find the value of pair (P,Q) such that A <= P < Q <= B value of P AND Q is maximum where AND is a binary operator. Refer to this link for more information about AND operator : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation#AND
Input:
First line of input contains number of test cases T. Each test case contains two numbers A and B.
Output: For each test case print the value of maximum AND.
Constraints: 1<=T<=1000 1<= A < B <=1018 Sample Input(Plaintext Link) 2 2 3 4 8 Sample Output(Plaintext Link) 2 6
Hackerearth Coding Challenge
#python sollution
T = int(raw_input())
for i in range(T):
x, y = map(int,raw_input().split(" "))
if y % 2 == 0:
if x < ( y - 1 ) :
y = y - 1
x = y - 1
elif y % 2 != 0 and x < y:
x = y - 1
print x & y