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|    wolfgang kern to John    |
|    Re: Hex 2 Bin    |
|    14 Apr 18 00:17:28    |
      From: nowhere@never.at              Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:       ...       > Sadly it gives incorrect results if a negative number is used in divide,       > e.g. -21/3; a/-b gives 0.       >       > also divide by zero isn't spotted.              Yeah, DIV were/is always a problem ... we better avoid it and work with       reciprocal MUL (SS, Newton_Raphson or similar methods) whenever possible.       __       wolfgang              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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