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Cantor's diagonal argument (among various similar names [ note 1]) is a mathematical proof that there are infinite sets which cannot be put into one-to-one correspondence with the infinite set of natural numbers – informally, that there are sets which in some sense contain more elements than there are positive integers.
The variables a and b alternate holding the previous remainders r k−1 and r k−2. Assume that a is larger than b at the beginning of an iteration; then a equals r k−2, since r k−2 > r k−1. During the loop iteration, a is reduced by multiples of the previous remainder b until a is smaller than b. Then a is the next remainder r k.
Two's complement is the most common method of representing signed (positive, negative, and zero) integers on computers, [1] and more generally, fixed point binary values. Two's complement uses the binary digit with the greatest value as the sign to indicate whether the binary number is positive or negative; when the most significant bit is 1 the number is signed as negative and when the most ...
In Two's Complement, the sign bit has the weight -2 w-1 where w is equal to the bits position in the number. [1] With an 8-bit integer, the sign bit would have the value of -2 8 -1 , or -128. Due to this value being larger than all the other bits combined, having this bit set would ultimately make the number negative, thus changing the sign.
Subtracting −0 is also trivial. The result can be only one of two cases. In case 1, operand 1 is −0 so the result is produced simply by subtracting 1 from 1 at every bit position. In case 2, the subtraction will generate a value that is 1 larger than operand 1 and an end-around borrow. Completing the borrow generates the same value as ...
Similarly, 4 √ x 1 x 2 is the perimeter of a square with the same area, x 1 x 2, as that rectangle. Thus for n = 2 the AM–GM inequality states that a rectangle of a given area has the smallest perimeter if that rectangle is also a square. The full inequality is an extension of this idea to n dimensions. Consider an n-dimensional box with ...
21 is read off as "one 2, one 1" or 1211. 1211 is read off as "one 1, one 2, two 1s" or 111221. 111221 is read off as "three 1s, two 2s, one 1" or 312211. The look-and-say sequence was analyzed by John Conway [1] after he was introduced to it by one of his students at a party. [2] [3]
2 0: bit: 10 0: bit 1 bit – 0 or 1, false or true, Low or High (a.k.a. unibit) 1.442695 bits (log 2 e) – approximate size of a nat (a unit of information based on natural logarithms) 1.5849625 bits (log 2 3) – approximate size of a trit (a base-3 digit) 2 1: 2 bits – a crumb (a.k.a. dibit) enough to uniquely identify one base pair of DNA