Re: Integer Division on 32 Bit Machines

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On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:10 PM, DG <dangets@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If your number is never expected to be negative, unsigned numbers give you a higher positive range.

To understand the negative numbering:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twos_complement

Hi, I am not clear with what does a -ve number has to do with a CPU instruction.Meaning does Linux Kernel uses -ve number? 


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