Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war

From: Mark H. Wood (mwood@IUPUI.Edu)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 13:03:12 EST

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On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Horst von Brand wrote:
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> C's unsigned arithmetic is 2-complement. Never even seen a 1-complement
> machine.

CDC big iron. Seymour Cray found he could get a little more speed out of
his design that way. IIRC SPSS on CDC gear used the -0 value to indicate
a missing case.

-- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu Make a good day.

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