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Aardwolf
on Sept 28, 2022
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Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of...
On signed integers, -0x80000000 returns 0x80000000 itself since there's no positive value opposite to this negative value, so 0x80000000 as NaN would make sense, but alternatively 0x80000000 as projective infinity would also make sense
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