On 9/21/07, Levi Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The answer lies in 2's complement binary representation of integers. > There aren't the same number of integers to the left and to the right > of 0; there's one more to the left. So, the absolute value of the > smallest representable integer isn't representable in the same number > of bits.
Crap. I was about to sound smart mentioning the 2's complement issue -- albeit not as well as you did. More fun info about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement#The_weird_number -Bryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
