Paul Gilmartin's speculations about a possible signed format for STCKE values
give free rein to his imagination; but, like traditional STCK values, those of
fully operational STCKE values are all but certain to be unsigned, no least
because surrendering a bit for a gratuitous sign would halve the capacity of
the ETOD clock.
I have written code, a lot of it, on this assumption; and I do not expect to be
disagreeably surprised.
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
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