Signed versus Unsigned Integers

Am I correct to say the difference between a signed and unsigned integer is: Unsigned can hold a larger positive value and no negative value. Unsigned uses the leading bit as a part of the value, while the signed version uses the left-most-bit to identify if the number is positive or negative. Signed integers can … Read more

How to revert multiple git commits?

Expanding what I wrote in a comment The general rule is that you should not rewrite (change) history that you have published, because somebody might have based their work on it. If you rewrite (change) history, you would make problems with merging their changes and with updating for them. So the solution is to create … Read more

How to link to a named anchor in Multimarkdown?

Taken from the Multimarkdown Users Guide (thanks to @MultiMarkdown on Twitter for pointing it out) [Some Text][]will link to a header named “Some Text”e.g. An optional label of your choosing to help disambiguate cases where multiple headers have the same title: This allows you to use [MultiMarkdownOverview] to refer to this section specifically, and not another section … Read more

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.StackOverflowError

Your algorithm is fine. However int is too small for your computations, it fails for this input: At some point integer overflows to negative value and your implementation goes crazy, recursing infinitely. Change int num to long num and you’ll be fine – for some time. Later you’ll need BigInteger. Note that according to Wikipedia on Collatz conjecture (bold mine): The longest progression for … Read more

EOFError: Ran out of input

When I run the code below I get this error message “EOFError: Ran out of input” what does it mean?? How it can be corrected?? and how to output the records details on the screen.