[ldite]

1111 1111 = 255

1 0000 0000 = 256

Anyone who claims to understand integer overflow from actual experience, rather than memorizing textbooks, should know that by inspection.

I'd forgive that in a CS grad (possibly) but if someone claimed to have been working in C or other unsafe languages for more than a trivial amount of time I'd be very suspicious.

[fulafel]

That's only assuming 0-based numbers :)

[philh]

(I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but)

> our computer might compute the correct answer but then just throw out the 9th bit, giving us zero (0000 0000) instead of 257 (1 0000 0000)!