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Re:Negative Base by bhrgunatha on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:28AM (#17417126)
Looking at the table is bad enough, but I imagine most people looking would think "Aaah binary" and convert to decimal: 1, 6, 7, 4, 5, 26, 27, 24, 25, 30, 31, 28... That's cruel :)
Re:Negative Base by msoucy on Thursday June 28, 2018 @10:49AM (#17417275)
I probably got a little too much sadistic pleasure out of it, yes...

However, I was always willing to answer nontrivial questions, and even convert numbers to/from negabinary to help them. (The program used the Schroeppel2 implementation, to prevent them from getting too much of a clue if they somehow managed to find its source code)