Le 29/06/2016 11:54, Peter Olson a écrit :
>> 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.
>> >
> No, in the 8 bit world, the range is (-128, 127)
> In the 16 bit world, the range is (-32768, 32767)
>
> They are talking about numbers, so the largest such number is the most negative.
>
> You might want to think about what is being said before you make a claim that something is idiotic.
Edward is right here. The thing is just badly expressed; these
authors mean the negative number with the largest absolute value.
Otherwise, whatever the number of bits, the largest negative integer is,
of course -1.
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