I was recently on a video call with a friend, throwing around some ideas for a new product. I mentioned adding large signed numbers in assembly and using two’s complement. He asked me what two’s complement was. I was a little surprised that he didn’t know. He’s been a Java programmer for more than 30 years. Java and Python programmers (and others like gasp Commodore / MicroSoft BASIC) don’t have a native unsigned integer type.
June Huh was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022 for his transformative contributions to the field of combinatorics, particularly for the bridges he built between combinatorics and algebraic geometry.