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Re:Using signed or unsigned int by default in C (2015) by ghoward on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @01:40PM (#32568370)
Rollover on unsigned ints is well-defined in C.
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Re:Using signed or unsigned int by default in C (2015) by hbn on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:36PM (#32570240)
I think their point is that it's less well defined in the average human's brain

When most people see 0 - 1 they don't immediately think 11111111111111111111111111111111

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Re:Using signed or unsigned int by default in C (2015) by ghoward on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:09PM (#32571551)
We're talking about C, though. I hope the average human is not writing C.
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Re:Using signed or unsigned int by default in C (2015) by jcelerier on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @04:17AM (#32576313)
the average person writing C is absolutely an average human in terms of relationship with mathematics
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