Is not -1 a more likely interpretation? Charles Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity
John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: >2**32 - 1 is certainly 4_294_967_295, the decimal representation of >the largest unsigned binary integer representable in a fullword; but >it may be more interesting to view it as a string of 32 one bits. > >John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
