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- From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
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- 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>
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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).
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- These systems are indeed all permissible. But they also all use the
- bit sequence 10011100010000 in the representation of decimal 10000.
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