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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Help with low level Ada
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On Mar 17, 11:59=A0am, Jeffrey Carter
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
> On 03/17/2011 10:46 AM, Shark8 wrote:
>
>
>
> > Letting I_1& =A0I_2 be unsigned integers XOR-ing them could
> > be achieved via this:
>
> Bitwise "and", "or", "xor", and "not" are defined for all modular types. =
You can
> simply say
>
> I_1 xor I_2
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "We use a large, vibrating egg."
> Annie Hall
> 44

Ah, you're right!
perhaps I should have said signed.
{I've been messing with OpenGL's 10- & 11-bit floating-point numbers
and so immediately thought of their exponent & mantissa fields which
you might implement as either modular-types or natural-constrained
subtypes.}