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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The Power of **2
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Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 10:58:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 24 10:58:53 1987
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In article <44037@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell) writes:
>On a lighter note, I find it rather humorous that...

>Well, I guess the do base 2 arithmetic, but wait, didn't
>the Univacs use ones-comp, or was it only classic
They sure used to! I had to convert a tape of 1's comp 24 bit numbers to
2's comp 36 bits.
>CDC machines???

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