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From: brooks@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Eugene D. Brooks III)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: more on unsigned
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Date: 1 Jun 88 04:19:53 GMT
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In article <2433@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> wulf@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU (Bill Wulf) writes:
>This is hardly the forum for a lecture on arithmetic, but,
>just to set the framework -- as we all know, our familiar
>positional notation is simply a shorthand for a polynomial.
Bill, I am sure that you might eventually convince the computer
industry to drop unsigned integer arithmetic, and even cause the
insertion of the "strange" data type in C, but it will probably
be long after you are dead and buried.  Is it really worth it?