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13 years ago

mod - remainder confiusion

Dear all, Anyone can explain what mean by this line of code: ad<=(-5) mod 8; I know the "mod" is the remainder. But, why need negative? What the different with ad<=5 mod 8? Th...
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13 years ago

While I am not sure if this is the helpful or not (as I can not see the context of your code):

5 as a byte:

0b00000101

-5 as a byte (one's complement):

0b11111010

-5 as a byte (two's complement):

0b11111011