Re:The beauty of bitwise AND
by thedufer on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:21AM
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The laws given in the post were explicitly derived from the equation. Please explain how you used that to determine f(0, -1)?
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Pick any `b` you want, even infinity, and evaluate:
sum_n^b 2^n (floor(0/2^n) mod 2) (floor(-1/2^n) mod 2)
sum_n^b 2^n * 0 * 1
sum_n^b 0
0Excellent. I'm glad we agree. You'll notice that the stated identity f(x,x) = x fails to hold over x < 0. I hope this is sufficient to make it clear that the equation does not consider the negatives?
Seems to work fine for -1:
f(-1, -1)
= sum_{n=0}^b 2^n (floor(-1/2^n) mod 2) (floor(-1/2^n) mod 2)
= sum_{n=0}^b 2^n * 1 * 1
= 1 + 10 + 100 + 1000 + ... [in binary]
= ...11111 [in the 2-adics]
= -1