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That's one way of looking at them. You can also look at the signed integers as bounded 2-adic numbers.
by AlotOfReading 1y ago
That's one way of looking at them. You can also look at the signed integers as bounded 2-adic numbers.
- LegionMammal978 1y ago"Bounded 2-adic integers" would only make sense if you were bounding the 2-adic norm. Integers mod 2^n would be closer to "approximate fixed-point 2-adic integers". (Alas, most languages don't expose a convenient multiplicative inverse for their integer types, and it's a PITA to write a good implementation of the extended Euclidean algorithm every time.)