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From: "Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Signed integer to modular type conversion
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 16:44:02 GMT
Date: 2002-05-17T16:44:02+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mraF8.5333$Ou5.4892@nwrddc03.gnilink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5ee5b646.0205161826.69dcf050@posting.google.com

> There are lots of marginal cases where you can do
> something at the hardware level that you can't map easily into a high
> level language (one of the most obvious ones is (A*B)/C with a double
> length intermediate value (of commonly used languages, only COBOL can
> handle this cleanly).

Forth also handles this cleanly.





  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-17 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-15  2:53 Signed integer to modular type conversion Adam Beneschan
2002-05-15  3:34 ` Jim Rogers
2002-05-15 14:01 ` Mark Johnson
2002-05-16  0:02   ` Adam Beneschan
2002-05-16  2:26     ` Steven Deller
2002-05-16  9:53     ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-16 13:46       ` Steve Doiel
2002-05-16 14:00       ` Mark Johnson
2002-05-16 15:52       ` Adam Beneschan
2002-05-17  2:26         ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-17 16:44           ` Frank J. Lhota [this message]
2002-05-16 13:55     ` Mark Johnson
2002-05-15 19:12 ` Robert Dewar
2002-05-15 20:28 ` Adam Beneschan
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2002-05-15  5:43 Grein, Christoph
2002-05-16  4:39 Grein, Christoph
2002-05-16 14:13 ` Mark Johnson
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