• Yardy Sardley
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    51 month ago

    I used what known as 2’s compliment. Take the complement (flip all the bits - here that would give you 01110 which is 14) then add 1.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      thanks for the explanation! could you express it as a NOT operation plus one? like is that how it would be processed at a low level?

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        1 month ago

        My low level is a tad rusty from when I learned the C side in school, but if I recall the not operator resolves as a single Boolean (0 or 1 in true C), whereas compliment comes back as however many bits you put in - a not operation per bit.

        In C, the not operator is ! and the compliment operator is ~