JC> to find it in either the C or C++ standard.  C and C++ are both fairly
JC> machine oriented, meaning they allow the machine to store things in the
JC> most convenient form for the machine.
    Nasty, to say the least. I remember stories of an old rusian machine
    that had n memory. That's right, it stored bits as positive,none,
    and negative. As you can tell, the base 3 machine suffered from
    serious physical limitations and was dumped.
JC> There has been a proposal for a standardized format for binary files,
JC> and I believe it was formally placed before the C9X committee, but I
JC> believe the proposal was placed before the committee after they'd said
JC> they weren't going to accept more proposals for extensions, so it died
JC> a'borning, so to speak.
    You mean like sequential,indexed sequential, and so on? If so,
    bad idea - dos systems and the like only have sequential files 
    natively.
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 >     In discrete math, is zero positive/negative or neither?
JE> 
JE> neither.
    Neither odd or even, neither negative or positive; for all intents
    an purposes, I declare it doesn't exist, but, is only an 
    additive indentity.
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