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Trying to use it to store the full range of unsigned values would mean awkward math everywhere, to convert between the two ranges.
Lots of software uses uint64s, for e.g. as identifiers handed out by some API, and not being able to store them conveniently definitely hurts.
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Trying to use it to store the full range of unsigned values would mean awkward math everywhere, to convert between the two ranges.
Lots of software uses uint64s, for e.g. as identifiers handed out by some API, and not being able to store them conveniently definitely hurts.