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Re: Eu integers [was eternity]

• Posted by Alex Caracatsanis <sunpsych at ncab??.com.au> Jan 26, 2008
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Jason Gade wrote:
> 
> Alex Caracatsanis wrote:
> > 
> > egg wrote:
> > > 
> > > Please, free the lost bit for eternity in integers! It is so inconvenient.
> > 
> > Just for my education and interest, what is "the lost bit", and why is it
> > "inconvenient"?
> > 
> 
> Euphoria uses 31-bit integers instead of 32-bit, which effectively cuts the
> integer range in half. But it's still approximately +/- 1 billion or so.
> 
> The most significant bit is used as a flag to tell whether the value is an
> integer
> or a pointer to either an atom or a sequence.
> 

Jason, in Eu is "the most signifiacant bit" the 31st bit or the 32nd bit?
Also, how does Eu indicate whether the integer is positive or negative?

Thank you

Alex Caracatsanis