Integer overflow: Difference between revisions

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In [[computer graphics]] or [[signal processing]], it is typical to work on data that ranges from 0 to 1 or from -1 to 1. An example of this is a [[grayscale]] image where 0 represents black, 1 represents white, and values in-between represent varying shades of gray. One operation that one may want to support is brightening the image by multiplying every pixel by a constant. [[Saturated arithmetic]] allows youone to just blindly multiply every [[pixel]] by that constant without worrying about overflow by just sticking to a reasonable outcome that all these pixels larger than 1 (i.e. [[high dynamic range imaging|"brighter than white"]]) just become white and all values "darker than black" just become black.

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