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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 158 points 1 day ago (5 children)

For anyone who doesn't want to do the conversion, that's 17 days.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 33 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Unless it's a signed integer, then it's -1 and they're expecting something...

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

A 5 bit long signed integer? What kind of weird system you using ? :p

[–] gens@programming.dev 6 points 6 hours ago

Two's complement

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It also has a max of 31 days possible. Which has... implications.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 15 points 23 hours ago

Among many other duties I manage the safety and claims database for an outsourced industrial cleaning company and let me tell you, some of the plants my company works struggle to make it a week without an accident, meanwhile some will go years without an accident. We also have one plant which had its last accident during the Bush Administration. Its absolutely wild how much safety can vary from one industrial facility to another

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

🤔 .... What implications? ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

They must sacrifice an undergrad on the 32nd day

[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is actually how chromatography works. The mobile phase is 0.1% formic acid and 0.3% blood of the innocent.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

blood of the innocent

Well, We work with what we have.

[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 86 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] swag_money@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

what's the general rule for translating negatives from binary? did you just do like 17 - 2 • (-1) or something?

[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] swag_money@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours 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?

Mmm yes. 5 bit two's complement.

I shouldn't make fun of it we've definitly made some ISA that weird.

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] scholar@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 5 points 19 hours ago

As in, 0x11 is 17 in decimal.

[–] humblebun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

I did and I regret it