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From: Anonymous@iuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: One's complement machines and C logi - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 04:14:28 EST
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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."

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					-- Allan Pratt
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