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Re: OT: Number bases (WAS: Constructed Computer Architectures (Concomps?))

From:Ph.D. <phil@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 3:47
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > Balanced ternary and base -2 have both been > proposed seriously in academic circles, because > they avoid the arbitrariness of modern sign > representation schemes (though 2's complement > is unarguably elegant).
Having used a Univac 1110 mainframe in college back in the mid-1970s, I'll always have a warm spot for one's complement numbers. --Ph. D.

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