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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 173 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 56 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 16 points 4 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)

🤔 .... What implications? ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

They must sacrifice an undergrad on the 32nd day

[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days 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 2 points 3 days ago

blood of the innocent

Well, We work with what we have.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] computergeek125@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] gens@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago

Two's complement

[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 90 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] Dabundis@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days 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@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days 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 4 points 3 days 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 days ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 ~

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] scholar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 6 points 3 days ago

As in, 0x11 is 17 in decimal.

[–] humblebun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

I did and I regret it