From: dxforth@gmail.com   
      
   On 9/11/2025 12:47 am, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:   
   > ...   
   > So should I continue with changing from symmetric to floored?   
      
   Old news but as mathematician John Wavrik reported to the ANS committee:   
      
   "It is most important that the arithmetic operations be uniform among   
    all systems.  A uniformly bad choice is better than chaos."   
      
   My understanding is Moore chose whatever the system/hardware provided   
   irrespective of what other systems (including his own) did i.e. he   
   wasn't ideologically aligned and didn't much care whether it broke   
   previous code.  The past was dead as far as he was concerned and he   
   owed it nothing.   
      
   AFAICS those are your two choices.   
      
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