From: "Florent" <florent AT oih DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: twin complement ......
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:51:12 +0200
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>You cause quite some confusion, here, by using the wrong term. The
>thing you're talking about is usually called 'two's-complement'.  It's
>the way negative numbers are represented in integers, on almost all
>existing types of computers.


Yes that's right and this is the name that I have learn in France, but I
quite newbye in computering and the documents I got from the controller I
have to control, use the term 'twin complement'. Is it something else or
really the 'two's-complement' ?