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From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe @ N41:48:31, W88:07:13)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: Re: Math for Smart Alecks
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 13:37:10 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 13:37:10 1984
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>This halving and doubling, then cross-out evens, add what's left to
>multiply is done billions of times every day by computers around the
>world.
>	Darrel J. Van Buer, PhD

Well, I don't know.  I hate to be picky, but I really don't think there
are very many computers that still do shift-and-add for multiplication.
At the very LEAST, I hope they use Booth's unmodified algorithm.
	Roger Noe		ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe