Hi,
You know pretty well that I am in the right about this. Yes, it is
incorrect to state it is the largest negative number without
explicitly stating that one is talking about its modulus.
On 29/06/2016, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
> 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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