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

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

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

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

[–] gens 8 points 1 week ago

Two's complement

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

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