On Nov 28, 12:55 pm, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> moijes12 wrote:
> > I know the value -0 is quite meaningless and makes little sense.But I
> > was just fiddling.I am unable to figure out the below result
>
> -0 and True
> > 0 --> (Why is this 0 and not say True or False)
> -0 and f
moijes12 wrote:
I know the value -0 is quite meaningless and makes little sense.But I
was just fiddling.I am unable to figure out the below result
-0 and True
0 --> (Why is this 0 and not say True or False)
-0 and false
0
-0 or True
True
Could someone please provide me some resour
In article <009b4bab$0$26925$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> When it comes to integers, I'm not aware of any mathematical or
> programming system which treats -0 and +0 as distinct entities, even if
> they have different internal representations.
A documented feature of mo
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:14:31 -0800, Mark Dickinson wrote:
>> Actually, there ARE computers where you might not see this result.
>> Virtually all of the processors on which Python runs use two's
>> complement arithmetic. In two's complement, there is no separate value
>> called -0. 0 and -0 have
On Nov 28, 11:14 pm, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> While that's true, I think the implementation of Python is
> such that the Python objects -0 and 0 should always be
> indistinguishable even on machines where the underlying
> architecture represents integers using ones' complement or
> sign-magnitude.
On Nov 28, 8:39 pm, Tim Roberts wrote:
> moijes12 wrote:
>
> >I know the value -0 is quite meaningless and makes little sense.But I
> >was just fiddling.I am unable to figure out the below result
>
> -0 and True
> >0 --> (Why is this 0 and not say True or False)
> -0 and false
>
moijes12 wrote:
>
>I know the value -0 is quite meaningless and makes little sense.But I
>was just fiddling.I am unable to figure out the below result
>
-0 and True
>0 --> (Why is this 0 and not say True or False)
-0 and false
>0
-0 or True
>True
>
>Could someone please prov
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:09:06 -0800, moijes12 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I know the value -0 is quite meaningless and makes little sense.
Actually, when it comes to floating point values, it is very useful to be
able to distinguish between -0 and +0.
> But I
> was just fiddling.I am unable to figure out
