Hi, You know pretty well that I am in the right about this. Yes, it is incorrect to state it is the largest negative number without explicitly stating that one is talking about its modulus.
On 29/06/2016, KatolaZ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 09:06:22AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Pg 78. "... our version of itoa does not handle the largest negative >> number, that is, the value of n equal to -(2^(wordsize - 1))". >> >> Do these authors understand what negative numbers are?! Describing >> -(2^(wordsize - 1)) as the LARGEST negative number clearly shows they >> have no idea! >> >> For the set of integers, as is the case above, the largest negative >> number is -1. The negative number being mentioned is the SMALLEST in >> the set that can be represented by wordsize. >> > > The mentioned number is the largest in modulus, which is the one that > requires the largest number of bits to be represented. So I can't > understand your surprise... > > HND > > KatolaZ > > -- > [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] > [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] > [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] > [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] > [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
