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Bitwise conversion of doubles using only floating point multiply and divide
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jandrewrogers
on Nov 24, 2020
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lainga
on Nov 25, 2020
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Really nice! You've figured out a way to do bitwise operations on the Wang LOCI-2, which had only had floating point operations (via log tables) as part of its 30-strong instruction set... Or, well, you would if the LOCI-2 used IEEE 754.
https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/wangloci.html
enriquto
on Nov 25, 2020
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Wow, this is incredibly awesome! I'm speechless...
emilfihlman
on Nov 25, 2020
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This is superb! And insane!
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