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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 22:44

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On Sat, 28 Apr 2018 18:31:18 +0100, Gareth's Downstairs Computer
<headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On 28/04/2018 17:06, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> 
>>       That is *two's* complement.  Please get your heresy right.
>
>ISTR 1s complement = 2 values of 0
>
>2s complement = no value of +32768 (in 16 bit)

     Quite.  Two's complement in n bits has values from -(2^(n-1)) to
+(2^(n-1)-1).  For one bit, this would be -1 to 0.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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