ROFL. Brexit must be having its adverse effects!
On 29/06/2016, Matthew Melton <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I'm being pedantic here but in the context of an 8 bit 2's > compliment word the binary rep of -1 is 11111111 and -128 is 1000000. > > So that -1 + 1 = 0 the carried bit gets dropped. > > So that > > 0 < 127 < -128 < -1 > > Yes I am failing to be funny. > > I'll be under my rock if you wish to ignore me. > > Matt > >> On 29 Jun 2016, at 08:43, Edward Bartolo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
