On Fri, 2 May 2014, jim@jpes.com wrote:

>
> All,
>
> Would it make sense that...
> (1) if the signed and unsigned integers that you are referring to are
> 16 bits lets say.
> (2)  500 decimal would be represented in 16 bits (Unsigned) as 0000
> 0001 1111 0100 (0x01F4).
> (3) -100 decimal would be represented in 16 bits ( Signed ) as 1111
> 1111 1001 1100 (0xFF9C).
>     100d =3D 1100100b.  as 16 bits it would be 0000000001100100.  And
> taking the twos compement
>     would give 1111111110011100 shown above.
>
>
> If the above statements are true, then processing a signed number (Line
> 3) as an unsigned number
> (Like Line 2) would give the result that -100 would be larger than 500.
>
> Is this not true?
>

YES it is true!
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