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Re: BASIC oddity?

From David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: BASIC oddity?
Date 2020-01-04 17:24 +0000
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References (2 earlier) <quoa19$o6o$1@dont-email.me> <ef3ac02c58.Alan.Adams@ArmX6.adamshome.org.uk> <qupq4i$4nf$1@gioia.aioe.org> <582d216fd8News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> <a2bf222d58.Alan.Adams@ArmX6.adamshome.org.uk>

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In message <a2bf222d58.Alan.Adams@ArmX6.adamshome.org.uk>
          Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> wrote:

>The thing I found surprising is that BASIC displays the values in I% and 
>J% using a signed interpretation, but does the subtraction in an unsigned 
>fashion. It's this inconsistency that worries me, in case at some future 
>date is is "corrected".

It's not inconsistent.  This is just how 2's complement addition and
subtraction work.  Perhaps you need to work through some more examples.
Doing them on paper, perhaps with a more limited number of bits to make
it less laborious, might help convince you.

David

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BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-03 17:16 +0000
  Re: BASIC oddity? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-01-03 19:31 +0000
    Re: BASIC oddity? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-01-03 21:00 +0000
      Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-03 22:26 +0000
        Re: BASIC oddity? Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2020-01-04 10:40 +0000
          Re: BASIC oddity? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-01-04 16:08 +0000
            Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-04 16:22 +0000
              Re: BASIC oddity? David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2020-01-04 17:24 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-04 18:47 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-01-06 08:58 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2020-01-06 16:20 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-01-07 08:49 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-01-07 11:20 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> - 2020-01-07 15:05 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-01-08 08:23 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-08 10:26 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2020-01-08 21:02 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2020-01-09 12:53 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-01-09 23:16 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2020-01-08 22:35 +0000
                Re: BASIC oddity? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2020-01-08 23:51 +0000
          Re: BASIC oddity? Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2020-01-10 11:30 +0000
            Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-10 12:38 +0000
      Re: BASIC oddity? Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2020-01-06 20:39 +0100
        Re: BASIC oddity? Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2020-01-06 21:13 +0000
          Re: BASIC oddity? Steve Drain <steve@kappa.me.uk> - 2020-01-08 12:46 +0000

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