How on Factorial

[Dave Angel]

On 10/28/2010 10:01 AM, Xavier Ho wrote:
> On 28 October 2010 23:52, Dave Angel<davea at ieee.org>  wrote:
>
>> The ~- trick only works on two's complement numbers.  I've worked on
>> machines in the past that used one's complement, and this wouldn't work
>> there.
>>
>> DaveA
>>
> I imagine this wouldn't work on floating point numbers either.
>
> Cheers,
> Xav
>
 From the help:

"The unary ~ (invert) operator yields the bitwise inversion of its plain 
or long integer argument. The bitwise inversion of x is defined as 
-(x+1). It only applies to integral numbers"

Inverting the bits of a floating point number wouldn't make much sense, 
so fortunately it gives an error.

DaveA