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Subject: Re: BitSet vs BigInteger (false Android doc)
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Patricia Shanahan schrieb:
>
> Could you explain why you are assuming 1's complement rather than
> sign-and-magnitude?

oops, find replace, I guess it is sign-and-magnitude.

The -x = ~x + 1 is needed to go back and forth from
the absolute magnitude to 2's complement magnitude.

Sorry for the error.