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Article #1232Re: space optimization involving enum
From: Mark Brader
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:21
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:21
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> > ... The representation of [decimal] 10000 has to use the bit > > sequence 10011100010000. > > As I read it, wrong. Nothing I see prevents use of 2's complement, > 1's complement, or excess-2**(n-1) (the sign bit being reversed from > 2's complement). These systems are indeed all permissible. But they also all use the bit sequence 10011100010000 in the representation of decimal 10000. -- Mark Brader "Wise wives welcome spring by moving the UNIX" utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com This article is in the public domain.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!lll-winken!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!wildcan!sq!msb From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: space optimization involving enum Message-ID: <1992Aug29.232155.14657@sq.sq.com> Date: 29 Aug 92 23:21:55 GMT References: <spuler.714711530@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au> <1992Aug25.160905.9177@sq.sq.com> <1992Aug26.222505.7496@sneaky.lonestar.org> Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 14