Simulating int arithmetic with wrap-around
Steve D'Aprano
steve+python at pearwood.info
Fri Dec 30 19:30:26 EST 2016
On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 02:14 am, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> On 30.12.16 16:47, Steve D'Aprano wrote:
>> Again, assume both operands are in range for an N-bit signed integer.
>> What's a good way to efficiently, or at least not too inefficiently, do
>> the calculations in Python?
>
> def to_unsigned(bits, x):
> return x & ((1<<bits)-1)
>
> def to_signed(bits, x):
> offset = 1<<(bits-1)
> return to_unsigned(bits, x + offset) - offset
Thanks.
Are you saying that the best way of doing this is this?
(1) convert signed Python ints to unsigned;
(2) perform operation and bitmask;
(3) convert unsigned back to signed.
Here's an example. I want to multiply 7*3 using a signed 4-bit int, getting
5 as the answer, and 7*4 getting -4 as the answer:
py> N = 4
py> to_signed(N, to_unsigned(N, 7) * to_unsigned(N, 3) & (2**N - 1))
5
py> to_signed(N, to_unsigned(N, 7) * to_unsigned(N, 4) & (2**N - 1))
-4
It works, but I'm glad I won't be doing anything that requires great
speed :-)
--
Steve
“Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure
enough, things got worse.
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