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~~Unsigned integer means an integer that hasn't been cryptographically signed by the chain of blocks right?~~
The verdict quotes this exchange (page 163):
one of the things that I really love about this is that, while there are indeed some nuances you can get into (platforms/archs, number theory, internal representations, ...), it's one of the rare computerwords in english that you could viably reason about on first principles without knowing much and get a sortacorrect answer
and yet
Unsigned integers are larger because… Because the containing variables don’t have a signature that crypto-statically constrains it to the lower set! (Yes that must be it)
"my computer's so secure! it does mean I can only use 32-bit applications on this 64-bit cpu, but alas. all for security!"
(even typing that made me wince. I hope anyone who had to deal with 32->64 in any capacity some years ago doesn't get hurt reading this)