In
<CAE1XxDGntfvjnYWTAxHL=5-sfg0ebobgkygp_2m-jxmiwi+...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 02/13/2013
at 07:09 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>We all distinguish andf use different intgernal and external
>representations of signed binary integers; the single-byte internal
>value 01111111 is, for example, almost always associated with the
>external representation +7;
Look again; '01111111'B is decimal +127. ITYM signed packed, for which
+7 would be the correct interpretation of '01111111'B.
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