Ominous

Mmm yes. 5 bit two's complement.

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

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

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

🤔 .... What implications? ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

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

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

I wonder if that's still cheaper, because it makes people value safety of others but also because it raises the burden to report smaller accidents and workmans comp fraud because of peer pressure.

What does LTL stand for ?

You can save if your lab is unsafe enough!

Ugh jeez.. right. I literally always mess that up

That's a matter of convention, not technical definition. A byte can be any number of bits, depending on hardware. For a while 6 bit bytes were common. RFC 791 refers to an 8 bit byte as an octet

4 bits is a nybble

Good point!