Old programming terminology

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I could have asked this question on https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com but it is likely too linguistic for that forum (they don't have a terminology tag), and still could be too hackerish for this one

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[oryx_and_crake]

max int?

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Usually maxint is represented as all ones except the uppermost one. "All ones" is more often minus one.

[oryx_and_crake]

max int unsigned then

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Too long to be practical in colloquial use.

[5x6]

I can only comment that I've been programming from the very early days, starting with the Minsk-22 assembler languages, and I have never heard this word in Russian.

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Was there another short word for it, or it just wasn't shortened?

[5x6]

The latter.