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From: "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm>
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Subject: Re: Strings and numbers
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:38:37 -0400
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On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:51:41 -0400, Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 3:24:08 PM UTC-5, Steve Graham wrote:

>> I am working on a problem which involves numbers from 1234567890
>> up to 987,654,321.  I need to be able to:
>> 1) Convert between the number and its string equivalent; and
>> 1) Divide the number by integers from 2 to 9 yielding a remainder.
>
> Hello,
>
> Do you have 16-bit cells?  If you don't, then two's
> complement ranges for 32-bit numbers are [0,2_147_483_647]

Did you mean [-2_147_483_648,+2_147_483_647] for 32-bit signed?


Rod Pemberton

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