Thank you, Raul.  May we have inverses?

On 12/14/2011 9:13 AM, Raul Miller wrote:
> The subject line of this thread is arguably wrong -- there are a
> variety of "good ways" of decomposing integers to binary.
>
> That said, it's interesting to think about the various proposals
> expressed in terms similar to those which could be used to implement
> monadic #:
>
> antibase2=:      #:~    2 #~ 1 + 2<.@^. 1>.>./@,@:|@:<.
> twoscomplement=: #:~    2 #~ 1 + 2<.@^. 1 +>./@,@:|@:<.
> signwithbits=:   #:~ 0, 2 #~ 1 + 2<.@^. 1>.>./@,@:|@:<.
>
> (In all cases the #: here is dyadic, so these definitions are
> independent of the definition of monadic #:)
>
>     antibase2 i: 3
> 0 1
> 1 0
> 1 1
> 0 0
> 0 1
> 1 0
> 1 1
>     twoscomplement i: 3
> 1 0 1
> 1 1 0
> 1 1 1
> 0 0 0
> 0 0 1
> 0 1 0
> 0 1 1
>     signwithbits i: 3
> _1 0 1
> _1 1 0
> _1 1 1
>   0 0 0
>   0 0 1
>   0 1 0
>   0 1 1
>
> There's also (* * #:) but that one assumes the antibase2 implementation...
>
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