!0

James Laver james.laver at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 15:30:22 GMT 2009


On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Jonathan Stowe
<jns at integration-house.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/12 Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk>:
>> Just been studying a CPAN module and I see a load of references to !0. Er,
>> what is that? Googling most unhelpful.
>>
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>
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> It's "Genius" for '1' :-) Please to be clubbing the perpatrator to
> death with a copy of their own wit and eurdition.

Although by rights it should be -1 on a twos complement machine.

(For those who remember ones complement based numbers, or even know
they existed).

--James


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