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- From: souva@aibn55.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
- Subject: Re: base -2 arithmetic (was: Re: Trinary)
- In-Reply-To: tck@bend.ucsd.edu's message of 12 Nov 92 21:08:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <SOUVA.92Nov16160002@aibn55.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- Reply-To: isouvatzis@babsy.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
- Organization: Radioastronomisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn, Bonn, FRG
- References: <SOUVA.92Nov9202414@aibn58.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <3ug2TB6w165w@mertwig.UUCP>
- <1duh56INNdu2@network.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:00:02 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- In article <1duh56INNdu2@network.ucsd.edu> tck@bend.ucsd.edu (Kevin
- Marcus) writes:
-
- In article <3ug2TB6w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel
- Drucker) writes:
-
- >souva@aibn58.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) writes:
- >
- >> Base -1 might be trouble, but...
- >>
- >> You CAN built base -2 arithmetic.
- >>
- >> 0 0
- >> 1 1
- >> 2 110
- >> 3 111
- >> 4 100
- >> 5 101
- >> 6 11010
- >> 7 11011
- >> 8 11000
- >> 9 11001
- >> 10 11110
- >
-
- He wasn't even counting in base two correctly....
-
- 0 0
- 1 1
- 2 10
- 3 11
- 4 100
- 5 101
- 6 110
- 7 111
- 8 1000
- 9 1001
- 10 1010
-
- You are absolutely right. I didn't count in base two correctly. I did
- count in base minus two. Please read article
- <1992Nov12.050621.2560@udel.edu> for further explanation, which should
- have reached you by now.
-
-
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- Paper mail: Ignatios Souvatzis, Radioastronomisches Institut der
- Universitaet Bonn, Auf dem Huegel 71, D-5300 Bonn 1, FRG
- Internet: souva@babsy.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de
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