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W,
Yes, I realize that. It points out that mathematics
and its computer implementation differ.
On 7/14/2011 3:13 PM, Wojtek Skulski wrote:
It is true in any programming language.
W
I just learned that in CP one can not negate an integer type (BYTE,
SHORTINT, INTEGER, LONGINT)
because the ABS(MIN(type)) # MAX(type), i.e. the range is not
symmetric about zero.
That caught me off guard.
-Doug Danforth
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