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omnicognate on June 24, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Finally getting two's complement

The apostrophe placement is significant: it's two's complement (complement of two) but ones' complement (complement of ones, plural).

masswerk on June 24, 2023 | [–]

Fixed. (I will do this error anytime.)

jodrellblank on June 25, 2023 | [–]

Thanks!

I wonder if instead of ones’ and two’s we could use more distinct names like the Boolean values, trues’ and two’s… oh that isn’t better.

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