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At 04:06 PM 7/29/98 -0500, Rebecca Carr wrote:
>All:
>
>Re: two's complement
>
>apostrophe or not?
>
>My McGraw-Hill Dictionary and my MS Press Computer Dictionary
>both say "yes" to the apostrophe. It is logical, yet our company
>word list has had this word on it as twos complement with NO apostrophe
>for YEARS. We are discussing it now and I wanted to get some other
>viewpoints.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Becky