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Re^10: Can I access and use UV types from perl?by Don Coyote (Hermit) |
on Nov 18, 2019 at 20:55 UTC ( [id://11108880]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I have just read up on two's complement and one's complement through the link to wikipedia provided by haukex. I had not realised there was a two's complement representation as well as operation, and when I suggested the masking ideas, that the numbers being masked to produce the decimal representation were in two's complement representation. It just seemed to work. I may have been a little off the mark, when suggesting these were some kind of unused integers, yet I feel it is too early to dismiss the idea as just an outdated one's complement runoff. I really got a lot out of this thread and the responses from everybody have been very helpful and informative. It is exciting to find out new stuff and expand my knowledge. I try to keep it Perl, but the nature of computers is that it is all related in some manner. Perl may be DWIM, but WDIM? :)
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