Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:Ray,
If you represent your number as bits (in binary), it turns all the 0s into 1's and 1's into 0's.
Including the sign bit. But you can tell the difference between systems that use 2's complement negative numbers and 1's complement, because the absolute numeric value would be off by 1 in the other case!
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.