On Mar 31, 4:17 pm, Jerry Avins <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Bruce McFarling wrote:
> > On Mar 31, 1:40 pm, Jerry Avins <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> Typo here?
> > Yes, those should have been ";", not ",", and a ":" after the "here".
> > Three alternatives:
> > (1) for 2's complement;
> > (2) for 2's complement and 1's complement;
> > (3) for 2's complement, 1's complement, and signed magnitude;
> > ... well, maybe my intuition is not safe here, since intuition
> > unfounded in experience is always shaky, there's a fourth possibility:
> > (4) for 2's complement and signed magnitude.
> Thanks. Dumb of me to have been confused.
Nah, its a flaw of spoken English syntax when giving lists with more
than one simple noun per item, which is why the written complex list
":" ";" notation was developed.
The only way I'm going to get this sorted out in my head is to devise
a set of 1's complement and signed-magnitude operators and test to see
what happens. ... ``1s:- 1s:U< 1s:. sm:- sm:U< sm:.'' etc. for one's
complement and signed magnitude values, and see what happens with the
definition.
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