| From: | Mathias PARNAUDEAU |
| Date: | 3 Sep 99 at 08:20:28 |
| Subject: | Re: Signed and Unsign numbers; Please help |
Stephen Lebed wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I need to be able to hold values from 0 to 65535 in a word, but Blitz only
> allows me a signed value from -32768 to 32767. How can I get this to work.
With Blitz, it's impossible to use unsigned types. You must use a long
value to store a such number (65535 in this case).
> If I type
>
> a.w=65535
> Nprint a
>
> The answer that I get is
>
> -1
Due to a binary reason. Sorry I haven't time today to explain ...
Cheers,
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