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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _decode_temp(byte_1, byte_2):
 """Decode a signed short temperature as two bytes to a single number."""

        temp = (byte_1 << 8) + byte_2
        if (temp > 32767):
            temp = temp - 65536
        temp = temp / 10
        return temp