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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: two's complement idea
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:14:51 -0800
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cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:

> In article <86y2sqace9.fsf@linuxsc.com>,
> Tim Rentsch  <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>
>> Why not just this?  (size_t)-1 /2 +1
>
> Because I didn't think of it before you posted
> it, Tim. :-)

Thank you for that Dan.  It's good to see you back
in the newsgroups again.