Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe @ N41:48:31, W88:07:13) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Re: Math for Smart Alecks Message-ID: <332@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 13:37:10 EST Article-I.D.: ihlts.332 Posted: Mon Jan 30 13:37:10 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 10:29:44 EST References: <114@iwu1b.UUCP> <805@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 9 >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