Re: When integers go bad

> This is standard behavior for integer arithmetic. Keeping it simple,
>  if you have 8 bits only:
>
>  2r01111111 == 127
>  +1
>  ----
>  2r10000000 == -128
>
>  Actually, n - 1 works by addition. 5 - 1 = 5 + (-1) = 5 + (2^8 - 1)
>
>  2r00000101 + 2r11111111 = 2r00000100 or 4.
>
>  I think it's more a matter of being careful, or of .asFloat'ing
>  everything when the range might get very large.
>  hjh
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Dan Stowell <danstowell@...> wrote:
>  > Hi -
>  >
>  >  SC goes a bit strange when integers go off the scale:
>  >
>  >   1410889248 * 99;   // Results in -2055885216
>  >
>  >  Is this as designed? Since it returns an Integer, it's pretty
>  >  dangerous since it can continue to be used in calculations and can
>  >  corrupt. Would be better if it returned inf, or perhaps even threw
>  >  some kind of exception. Is that feasible?
>
>
>
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