Alternative representation of integers using a sign bit at the end.
The convention on sign here is to have the argument to msb
denote
the sign of the MSB itself, with all higher bits set to the negation
of this sign. The result is interpreted in two's complement.
13 = ..0001101(base 2) = nz (bit1 (bit0 (bit1 (msb true)))) -13 = ..1110011(base 2) = nz (bit1 (bit1 (bit0 (msb false))))
As with Num
, a special case must be added for zero, which has no msb,
but by two's complement symmetry there is a second special case for -1.
Here the Bool
field indicates the sign of the number.
0 = ..0000000(base 2) = zero false -1 = ..1111111(base 2) = zero true
Instances For
The SNum
representation uses a bit string, essentially a list of 0 (false
) and 1 (true
) bits,
and the negation of the MSB is sign-extended to all higher bits.
SNum.testBit n a
is true
iff the n
-th bit (starting from the LSB) of a
is active.
If the size of a
is less than n
, this evaluates to false
.
Equations
Instances For
SNum.czAdd a b n
is n + a - b
(where a
and b
should be read as either 0 or 1).
This is useful to implement the carry system in cAdd
.