>This not only avoids the burden of dealing with negative numbers (such as the myriad of language-specific wraparound consequences of overflow… or underflow),

>This not only avoids the burden of dealing with negative numbers (such as the myriad of language-specific wraparound consequences of overflow… or underflow), Is this supposed to be some kind of joke? Unsigned underflow wraps around to the highest number. Meanwhile signed gives you a negative number, which tends to be properly handled by code that assumes positive numbers.