To: Bruce Kurtz
The convention is that if the high-order bit is turned on, it represents a negative number.
74 posted on
07/27/2003 11:53:48 AM PDT by
djf
To: djf
The convention is that if the high-order bit is turned on, it represents a negative number.I was wondering about that too... "Twos Complement." That keeps you from having both a +0 and a -0.
Mark
84 posted on
07/27/2003 9:13:14 PM PDT by
MarkL
(OK, I'm going to crawl back under my rock now!)
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