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ygfperson

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wikipedia: negabinary
« on: August 17, 2005, 08:45:39 PM »
just curious, why was negabinary ever created?
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« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2005, 06:20:57 AM »
Well it looks overly confusing to me but I guess it was experimental?
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« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2005, 09:10:09 AM »
its what happens when really smart people get really bored.
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« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2005, 10:41:20 AM »
Quote from: ygfperson
just curious, why was negabinary ever created?


because you can represent positive and negative numbers without using a sign bit. An extra bit doubles the number of things you cant represent. However better encoding schemes have prevailed (ever had to flip 'em and add one? ;) )
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wikipedia: negabinary
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2005, 11:26:56 AM »
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just curious, why was negabinary ever created?
I'm not really sure.  I find it interesting to play with when I have idle moments.

A more important question might be "why hasn't anyone else posted a wiki article for today?"  I need my reading material.
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2005, 01:46:00 PM »
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why hasn't anyone else posted a wiki article for today?

done.
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