Actual numbers? 2's complement isn't that bad to work with; a byte >= 80 hex is negative, 00-79 are positive.
No, not actual numbers... you don't expect me to remember something from my junior year of college 2 years after I graduated did you??!
Well, the day I remember most clearly when he did this type of thing was the day we had to make a square root algorithm. I understood how to do it with the flow-chart, but while trying to keep all the logic and numbers straight while going through the assembly I just got turned around... we all hit our wall at some time or another! He just hit his after me in this case and impressed me greatly! It probably wasn't hard... but when you are sitting in an engineering lab for five hours trying to figure out why you are one bit off the answer, tired as anything, and confused beyond all reasoning, having your lab partner look up from some furious scribbling and say, "we should be seeing this... here's where we're going wrong," is awsome! But, he definitely was good with the nuts and bolts of assembly, something I just couldn't quite get my head wrapped around. I got a good grade in the class, but the labs would have taken me 3-4x as long without him.
Yes, we all have our abilities... it remains up to us to be content with what and where we are!
Kevin
PS - while I admit to somewhat swallowing the hype of GRC, I must agree with you about all those big fancy fonts... something that always kind of annoyed me. Sort of like those people who use a black starry background with small yellow letters - a different extreme but just as annoying!
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