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

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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