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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What is your opinion about unsigned int u = -2 ?
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On Sun, 4 Aug 2024 20:29:21 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:

> Since the mid of the 70s all new machines work all with 2s complement.
> There will be never computers with different notations since the 2s
> complement makes the circuit design easier.

This may be hard to believe, but I think in the early days 2s-complement 
arithmetic was seen as something exotic, like advanced mathematics or 
something. To some, sign-magnitude seemed more “intuitive”.

As for ones-complement ... I don’t know to explain that.