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Ferrotin on Nov 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making all your integers positive with zigzag enco...

Wouldn’t they use a plain bitmask instead, the lsb indicating negation, with 3 being the negation of 2? That’s zigzag encoding with a negative zero.

k0k0r0 on Nov 25, 2022 [–]

If I understand you correctly, then that exactly what I am talking about. You might see this as bitmask. That's correct.

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