▲ 709 ▼ Biology OP (mander.xyz) submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 38 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Addition by the additive inverse. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Artyom@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Now you just replaced one incalculable thing with a different incalculable thing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Eh? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Artyom@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Computers don't subtract, and you can't just add a negative, a computer can't interpret a negative number, it can only store a flag that the number is negative. You need to use a couple addition tricks to subtract to numbers to ensure that the computer only has to add. It's addition all the way down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago What does this have to do with computers? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Now you just replaced one incalculable thing with a different incalculable thing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Eh? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Artyom@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Computers don't subtract, and you can't just add a negative, a computer can't interpret a negative number, it can only store a flag that the number is negative. You need to use a couple addition tricks to subtract to numbers to ensure that the computer only has to add. It's addition all the way down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago What does this have to do with computers? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Eh? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Artyom@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Computers don't subtract, and you can't just add a negative, a computer can't interpret a negative number, it can only store a flag that the number is negative. You need to use a couple addition tricks to subtract to numbers to ensure that the computer only has to add. It's addition all the way down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago What does this have to do with computers? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Computers don't subtract, and you can't just add a negative, a computer can't interpret a negative number, it can only store a flag that the number is negative. You need to use a couple addition tricks to subtract to numbers to ensure that the computer only has to add. It's addition all the way down. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago What does this have to do with computers? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago What does this have to do with computers? permalink fedilink source parent
