By: Konrad Schwarz (no.spam.delete@this.no.spam), February 28, 2013 1:49 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
rwessel (robertwessel.delete@this.yahoo.com) on February 28, 2013 12:29 am wrote:
> *S/360 tradition is to number bits from left to right, so the
> mask/value scheme makes perfect sense from that perspective.
Labeling the most significant bit "0" is entirely consistent with having the most significant byte of an integer at offset 0 from the start of the number. In both cases, a place's value corresponds to base ^ (length_of_object - place).
> *S/360 tradition is to number bits from left to right, so the
> mask/value scheme makes perfect sense from that perspective.
Labeling the most significant bit "0" is entirely consistent with having the most significant byte of an integer at offset 0 from the start of the number. In both cases, a place's value corresponds to base ^ (length_of_object - place).