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From: arko@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (bob arko)
Subject: unsigned ints
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Hey, guys -
	We just upgraded to 4.1, and discovered that unsigned integers seem to have
vanished as a built-in.  Our existing code made frequent use of uint4's because we need
to compare large numbers with absolute precision (i.e. we can't use floats), and a
signed int4 isn't big enough.  What happened?