On 17 January 2014 19:25, Jens Nockert <[email protected]> wrote: > > On H26/01/17, at 20:12, Nick Krempel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If you go with a representation-independent 'bitlen', I would suggest > returning NaN for any negative number. > > infinity would make sense for a signed two's complement representation.
Yes! You win! +Infinity (*not* -Infinity) is now my top choice. (The mathematical version of what you said is the 2-adic expansion. For example the 2-adic expansion of -1 is ...1111111 - carrying on infinitely to the left. First google hit: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/p-adicExpansion.shtml)
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