On Wednesday 28 November 2007 00:48, Jim Brain wrote:
As well, in keeping with the "if it's too
easy, it hides too many
details" view, rolling your own multiply or divide on a CPU without a
native implementation in silicon is a very useful exercise.
This reminds me of the time I'd borrowed a "Scelbi Z80 Cookbook" and after
reading the stuff they had to say in there about how to do floating point
math I was on my way to developing my own floating point package for that
chip. Then I had to give the book back...
Never saw one since then, either. :-(
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