Re:Two's complement unexpectedly shows up in infinite series
by kevinventullo on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:35AM
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Yep, and that last number is the 2-adic representation of -4/3.
It turns out a lot of ideas from calculus and real analysis carry over to the 2-adics, and this can lead to some interesting computational shortcuts since two’s complement is essentially native 2-adic arithmetic. I’ve blogged a bit about this here: https://kevinventullo.com/
It turns out a lot of ideas from calculus and real analysis carry over to the 2-adics, and this can lead to some interesting computational shortcuts since two’s complement is essentially native 2-adic arithmetic. I’ve blogged a bit about this here: https://kevinventullo.com/