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On 03/29/2014 04:03 PM, al davis wrote:
> On Saturday 29 March 2014, Stephen R. Besch wrote:
>> realizing that I had forgotten
>> about the sign bit it became clear that you cannot just toss
>> the high  bits - you need to toss the low bits (essentially
>> an integer divide by 16).
> Usually if numbers are small enough, you can toss the high bits.
>
> "Usually" means the usual two's complement representation.
>
>
True enough as long as they are all positive. With signed data, you 
really have no choice but division of some kind

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