unsigned 32 bit arithmetic type?

Robin Becker robin at reportlab.com
Wed Oct 25 14:06:29 EDT 2006


Martin v. Löwis wrote:
........
> As I said: you need to fix the final outcome:
> 
> py> x = 0xFFFFFFFFL
> py> hex(x)
> '0xFFFFFFFFL'
> 
........
> 
> and so on. Whether you perform the modulo operation after
> each step, or only at the end, has no impact on the result.


All hail congruency classes.

I still miss the CDC 6000's where we had two zeroes :)

-- 
Robin Becker




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