earl@wright.mips.com (Earl Killian) (01/06/89)
The thing I like about little endian is that for fixed point arithmetic, the point is in a fixed place. :-) -- UUCP: {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!earl USPS: MIPS Computer Systems, 930 Arques Ave, Sunnyvale CA, 94086
cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) (01/06/89)
In article <10728@wright.mips.COM>, earl@wright.mips.com (Earl Killian) writes: > The thing I like about little endian is that for fixed point > arithmetic, the point is in a fixed place. :-) I agree that this is the case for integer arithmetic, but for fixed point arithmetic (binary numbers between 0 and 1, for example), the point is in a fixed place in big endian, but not little endian. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)
alderson@polya.Stanford.EDU (Rich Alderson) (01/24/89)
"four and twenty blackbirds" was a MARKED construction even when the poem was new, used by the poet for its rhythmical structure and markedness. Marked constructions such as this are interesting for what they say about the unmarked ones; they don't provide counter-arguments to claims based on the unmarked ones. Rich Alderson Stanford University