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>   eivind@odin.funcom.com (Eivind Eklund) writes:
>  Are zero in an integer required to be represented by binary zeros?


There was considerable debate about whether or not integers could be stored 
as BCD, Grey code, or some such, but in the end, we decided that they had to 
be stored as binary numbers. And, of course, 2's comp, 1's comp, and signed 
magnitude all use all-bits-zero for zero. The only thing that could cause a 
problem is for machines/compilers with signed zeros; I think that negative 
zero might have some other bit pattern.

Rex

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