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From: volpe@underdog.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Poorly worded question (was Re: IsUnsigned() function?)
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Date: 23 Jul 90 16:35:57 GMT
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|>In article <31240@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> chu@acsu.buffalo.edu (john c
chu) writes:
|>>Interpretation 3: technically, all numbers are 'signed' (positive or
|>>negative) except 0, so it should return a 0 for all numbers except 0
|>>for which it should return a 1. (e.g. return(num = 0))

All numbers are 'signed' except zero? Does that mean a variable
declared as "unsigned int" should hold only the value zero? May as
well use a constant. :-)

-Chris Volpe