On 4/27/05, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Gabriel Sechan wrote:
Not so wise, he missed the possible return value of 1. 0 is an integer, after all.
I noticed that also...but then I remembered 0 is not positive (nor negative).
To us old-time PDP-11 programmers, 0 is positive. For that matter, I believe that 0 is positive in IBM 7090 but it's been over 40 years since I thought about that. So I'm not positive.
carl
Ahh, and to us old CDC programmers, there is a +0 and its one's complement is a -0. ;-)
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