On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 09:06:22AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Pg 78. "... our version of itoa does not handle the largest negative
> number, that is, the value of n equal to -(2^(wordsize - 1))".
>
> Do these authors understand what negative numbers are?! Describing
> -(2^(wordsize - 1)) as the LARGEST negative number clearly shows they
> have no idea!
>
> For the set of integers, as is the case above, the largest negative
> number is -1. The negative number being mentioned is the SMALLEST in
> the set that can be represented by wordsize.
>

The mentioned number is the largest in modulus, which is the one that
requires the largest number of bits to be represented. So I can't
understand your surprise...

HND

KatolaZ

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