-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/07/2010 01:57 PM, Frank Mori Hess wrote:
by the way you could store the sign in the MSB of the most significant digit
Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought that's what two's-complement meant.
You are mistaken, it's not just using the most signficant bit as a sign bit. There's a wikipedia article on two's complement if you care.
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten the different encoding for negative numbers. It has been about fifteen years since I looked at it last. - -- Chad Nelson Oak Circle Software, Inc. * * * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku877MACgkQp9x9jeZ9/wTgbACfaDw1zlEOYqjycNenJdE77aAh SzcAoJgouizvfWEO+whB1L9dkzKbr0dq =nvhq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----