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[–] [email protected] 174 points 1 month ago (5 children)

For anyone who doesn't want to do the conversion, that's 17 days.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Mmm yes. 5 bit two's complement.

I shouldn't make fun of it we've definitly made some ISA that weird.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what's the general rule for translating negatives from binary? did you just do like 17 - 2 • (-1) or something?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used what known as 2's compliment. Take the complement (flip all the bits - here that would give you 01110 which is 14) then add 1.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

thanks for the explanation! could you express it as a NOT operation plus one? like is that how it would be processed at a low level?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My low level is a tad rusty from when I learned the C side in school, but if I recall the not operator resolves as a single Boolean (0 or 1 in true C), whereas compliment comes back as however many bits you put in - a not operation per bit.

In C, the not operator is ! and the compliment operator is ~

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It also has a max of 31 days possible. Which has... implications.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Among many other duties I manage the safety and claims database for an outsourced industrial cleaning company and let me tell you, some of the plants my company works struggle to make it a week without an accident, meanwhile some will go years without an accident. We also have one plant which had its last accident during the Bush Administration. Its absolutely wild how much safety can vary from one industrial facility to another

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🤔 .... What implications? ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They must sacrifice an undergrad on the 32nd day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is actually how chromatography works. The mobile phase is 0.1% formic acid and 0.3% blood of the innocent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

blood of the innocent

Well, We work with what we have.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unless it's a signed integer, then it's -1 and they're expecting something...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A 5 bit long signed integer? What kind of weird system you using ? :p

[–] gens 8 points 1 month ago

Two's complement

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Because a 5 bit unsigned integer is so much better? :p

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Only if you're using a sign bit rather than two's compliment (a sign bit allows for two representations of 0)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

As in, 0x11 is 17 in decimal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I did and I regret it