• cobysev
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    1723 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        Mmm yes. 5 bit two’s complement.

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

      • @swag_money
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        23 months ago

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

        • Yardy Sardley
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          53 months 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.

          • @swag_money
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            13 months 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?

            • @computergeek125
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              3 months 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 ~

    • @chuckleslord
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      573 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        163 months 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

          • @PumpkinSkink
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            33 months ago

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

            • @Cenzorrll
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              23 months ago

              blood of the innocent

              Well, We work with what we have.

    • Phoenixz
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      403 months ago

      Unless it’s a signed integer, then it’s -1 and they’re expecting something…

      • DacoTaco
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        93 months ago

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

      • @computergeek125
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        33 months ago

        Only if you’re using a sign bit rather than two’s compliment (a sign bit allows for two representations of 0)