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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: How to calculate negative binary??
Date: 1997/04/03
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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.

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: utopian@pl.jaring.my

I did that too.

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