| From: Andrew Reilly (andrew-scheme at areilly.bpc-users.org) Date: Mon Mar 16 00:52:51 EDT 2009 |
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:26:34AM -0400, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote: > That would make sense if half of them grew up on old one's complement > machines, which has a separate plus zero and minus zero in their binary > representations. But that would probably have to be the over-fifty > crowd. Do you teach senior citicens? Don't forget that the (more-or-less ubiquitous) IEEE floating point formats are sign-magnitude too. Cheers, -- Andrew
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