Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site iuvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!saj From: saj@iuvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: One's complement machines and C logi - (nf) Message-ID: <119@iuvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 15:11:57 EST Article-I.D.: iuvax.119 Posted: Wed Feb 15 15:11:57 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Feb-84 06:07:16 EST Sender: saj@iuvax.UUCP Organization: Indiana U, Bloomington 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