[Tfug] Speaking of zero...

[William Stott]

Recently, a conversion on zero was brought up in a class I am taking. The conversation focused on positive and negative values for zero, and what they meant in terms of a computer. Anyone care to throw their ideas into TFUG on this? The instructor said that negative and positive values of zero can cause calculation issues, but he did not elaborate. I am not exactly sure how since the end result seems to be the same. I did see the problem when doing signed magnitude calculations, but only due to the rules in which the book we use gave to us.

 

Thanks,

 

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