Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-crg.llnl.gov!brooks From: brooks@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Eugene D. Brooks III) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: more on unsigned Message-ID: <8056@lll-winken.llnl.gov> Date: 1 Jun 88 04:19:53 GMT References: <2433@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.llnl.gov Reply-To: brooks@lll-crg.llnl.gov.UUCP (Eugene D. Brooks III) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 7 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?