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Chef and the XORed Number

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Given an integer N, Chef wants to find the smallest positive integer M such that the bitwise XOR of M and M+1 is N. If no such M exists output -1. Input The first line of input contain an integer T denoting the number of test cases. Each of the following T lines contains an integer N for that test case. Output For each test case, output a single line containing the number M or -1 as described

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