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  Re: what's the power of povray?  
From: Edward Coffey
Date: 28 Sep 1999 00:01:18
Message: <37f03d8e@news.povray.org>
>   I wonder why this and not 4,294,967,296.
>   Is this another example of "should use unsigned integers because
negative
> numbers are never used, but signed integers are used instead because it's
> easier it type 'int' instead of 'unsigned'"?

I've heard it argued that unsigned ints don't have as much cross-platform
support, though I don't know whether it's true or not.


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