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   Jeremy Todd wrote:   
   > I need to compute the absolute value of the minimum signed int value   
   > for each signed integral type. This value isn't representable as a   
   > signed int, but it is representable as an unsigned int.   
      
   A way out of these problems is to never use the smallest value of a   
   signed integer. For example, if you store a sound signal in a 16bit   
   signed integer, use the range [-(2^16 - 1), 2^16 - 1]. The non-existence   
   of the additive inverse of -2^n makes the value unusable. From this   
   restriction follows other advantages such as being able to form a   
   bijection between the integer values and floating point numbers (useful   
   for lossless sound conversion between integers and floating point   
   numbers). Similarly for any data which is quantized from real numbers.   
      
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