Timing of PDP-11 Instructions

Maybe you should port bc to your 11. (Actually I'm fairly sure ports already exist.) Here are your reciprocals..... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- scale=40 define r(x) { for (i=1;i<=x;i++) { 1.0/i } } r(65535) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course you really dont need that because you can just calculate your logs directly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- scale=95 l(2) 0.69314718055994530941723212145817656807550013436025525412068000949339362196969471560586332699641 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The reciprocal calculations take 1.562 seconds in bc on my laptop. If I'm translating between benchmarks correctly, that would be about a day on an 11/23. You didn't want it finished in this lifetime anyway, did you? :) Eric