This is one of the reasons why I wrote Far from complete (besides missing pod, tests, you name it.)

The perl builtins suffer from negative integer flaws also. The format %x of sprintf expects a signed an unsigned integer, but nonetheless

say $f = sprintf "%x", -15;
say hex $f;
__END__
fffffffffffffff1
18446744073709551601

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on a 64bit system. The object could get a sign flag set by the constructor which is honored by arithmetic operations, but the string representation would be ambiguous anyways if the string has a leading dash.

I'm not sure what to do about that. Perhaps limiting to unsigned integers is the way to go, and encode should croak if the number is negative; don't know yet.

update: unsigned, yes, that's the point; common typo. It is coerced into an unsigned. Thanks Anonymous Monk fo pointing out the glitch.

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

In reply to Re^2: Math::Base - arithmetics with baseX integers by shmem
in thread Math::Base - arithmetics with baseX integers (updated) by shmem

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