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Subject: Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war 
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From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> said:

[...]

> I don't know. I intended only to turn the sign bit on. I'm not sure how
> 1's complement arithmetic works, so I don't know if it works for 1's
> complement arithmetic.

C's unsigned arithmetic is 2-complement. Never even seen a 1-complement
machine.
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