long int behaviour

[Timothy Grant]

Hi again,

I have a question about longs that has come about due to my
question and the discussion of IP math a couple of days ago.

I'm doing ok on the math part, I still have some issues I need
to work through, but I think I will have it all nailed down
shortly (the exercise has been very informative and
educational).  I do have a question about longs and their
behaviour. Given the following experimenting...

>>> hex(4294965248L)
'0xFFFFF800L'
>>> hex(~4294965248L)
'-0xFFFFF801L'
>>> 

The first output is what I would expect, however, I would have
expected the second output to be

0x000007FFL

It appears to be something to do with two's complement storage,
but I'm at a loss as to why my expectations were so incorrect.


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    tjg.

Timothy Grant                         tjg at exceptionalminds.com
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