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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: How to calculate negative binary??
Date: 1997/04/03
Date: 1997-04-03T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E82qqG.Fr9.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bc3bf9$a8a655e0$d87d8ea1@AaBbCcDd


Centaury (utopian@pl.jaring.my) wrote:
: Compilation error occurs when I entered the line :

: p:=2# - 1010110 #

: and is caused by the negative value of the binary. How to correct it?

   p := -2#1010110#;

No spaces are allowed between '#'s.  The minus sign goes out front,
and you need a semicolon at the end.  See the syntax for "based literals"
in RM95 2.4.2.

: -- 
: Please mail replies to :
: utopian@pl.jaring.my

I did that too.

-Tucker Taft   stt@inmet.com   http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
Intermetrics, Inc.  Burlington, MA  USA




      parent reply	other threads:[~1997-04-03  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-03-31  0:00 How to calculate negative binary?? Centaury
1997-03-31  0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1997-04-03  0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
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