On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:55:05 -0800, rumours say that Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
[I] >>>>is to reset the rightmost (less significant) '1' bit of a number (ie >>>>change it to '0'). [bryan] >>>i tried c &= c - 1 but i'm not getting the least significant or >>>rightmost bit reset to zero. am i misunderstanding something? >>> >>> >>>>>>2 & 1 # 2 = 0x10; reset right most would be 0x10 <snip> [Duncan] >> The difference between the original "reset the rightmost '1' bit", and your >> interpretation: "reset the rightmost bit" is the "'1'". >> >> The rightmost bit that is set is reset. So 0x10 -> 0, and 0x1010 -> 0x1000. <snip> >thanks duncan... you're right, i did intrepret this as "reset the rightmost >bit" >instead of "reset the rightmost '1' bit". and i must have read what christos >wrote 100 times!!! Don't worry, Bryan, I'm probably more to blame, since I have this tendency to interject parenthesized sub-sentences all over my paragraphs, that probably confuse more than clarify things ( self.remind(prose is not code) :). Perhaps I should crosspost my replies (esp. the ones with nested parentheses) to comp.lang.lisp ... -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
