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Re:How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-... by linkdd on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:31AM (#26357917)
Let's say you have two 4 bits integer to form an 8 bit decimal number:

1111.1111 is (1 + 2 + 4 + 8) + (1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16)

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