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Subject: Re: a stupid doubt with the ^

Author: Antonio Dieguez

Date: 19:56:00 05/16/00

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On May 16, 2000 at 22:33:41, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On May 16, 2000 at 22:14:49, Antonio Dieguez wrote:
>
>>hello, at last im really implementing hash tables, and they are already working
>>on my program, more or less.
>>
>>I have a doubt about the ^, am sorry my complete ignorance but what kind of
>>numbers appears? for example two numbers of 7 digits sometimes results on a
>>number of 8 digits! and off course this cant be out of control if it is the
>>index for the hash table.
>>
>>Thanks in advance...
>>
>>bye bye............. be well.
>>
>>me.
>
>^ is XOR.  If you say A ^ B, you get zeros in every bit position except where
>there was a one-bit in A and a zero-bit in B, or vice versa.
>
>1 ^ 1 = 0
>1 ^ 0 = 1
>0 ^ 1 = 1
>0 ^ 0 = 0
>
>There is no carrying, so if you have two numbers A and B, A ^ B can't be more
>than A | B.  You can't XOR two 7-bit numbers and get a number that's 8-bits.
>
>bruce

hi

i mean for example 8607879^4567890=13036501

so here 7digits^7digits=8digits

am sorry if there is something obvius i still dont get clear...

me.



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