Thomas,
Sure looks like a bug. We'll get it fixed, but it may take a few  weeks for
us to get back with a full report.

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Thomas Hickey <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Maybe a better question is why are all of these true?
>
> 81985529216486896 = 16b123456789abcdf0
>
> 1
>
> 81985529216486896 = 16b123456789abcdef
>
> 1
>
> 81985529216486880 = 16b123456789abcde8
>
> 1
>
> I'm running j806/j64/windows.
>
> --Th
>
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > P.S.
> >
> >    240 205 171 137 103 69 35 1 p. 256x
> > 81985529216486896
> >
> > --
> > Raul
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:39 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >    _3 ic 240 205 171 137 103 69 35 1 { a.
> > > 81985529216486896
> > >
> > > The byte order the machine is using here is little endian
> > >
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Little-endian
> > >
> > > That means the least significant byte here was 239 (your example) or
> > > 240 (my example).
> > >
> > > But your number was even and 239 is odd...
> > >
> > > --
> > > Raul
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Thomas Hickey <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >> I have a 64 bit number:
> > >> 16b123456789abcdef = 81985529216486896
> > >>
> > >> encoded in 8 bytes in a file:
> > >> 239 205 171 137 103 69 35 1
> > >>
> > >> but
> > >>
> > >> _3 ic 239 205 171 137 103 69 35 1 { a. returns 81985529216486895 (1
> less
> > >> than I expected)
> > >>
> > >> 16 #.inv 81985529216486895 returns 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
> > >>
> > >> 16 #.inv 81985529216486896 returns 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
> 15 0
> > >>
> > >> I suppose this has something to do with signed 64 bit integers, but I
> > don't
> > >> understand it. I'm running on a Intel machine (Surface laptop).
> > >>
> > >> --Th
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