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On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Horst von Brand wrote:
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> C's unsigned arithmetic is 2-complement. Never even seen a 1-complement
> machine.

CDC big iron.  Seymour Cray found he could get a little more speed out of
his design that way.  IIRC SPSS on CDC gear used the -0 value to indicate
a missing case.

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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@IUPUI.Edu
Make a good day.