Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!iuvax!Anonymous From: Anonymous@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: One's complement machines and C logi - (nf) Message-ID: <1494@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 04:14:28 EST Article-I.D.: pur-ee.1494 Posted: Mon Jan 30 04:14:28 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 06:24:00 EST Sender: notes@pur-ee.UUCP Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 14 #R:u1100a:-53700:iuvax:9500001:000:353 iuvax!Anonymous Jan 30 00:53:00 1984 Then there's the CDC6600, a *sixty*-bit ones-compliment computer. I paraphrase and quote from the reference manual: A word of all 0's is zero. A word of all ones is -0. If you test these against one another, you'll find that "zero is greater than minus zero, but don't ask by how much." ---- -- Allan Pratt ...decvax!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!apratt