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Bitwise conversion of doubles using only floating point multiply and divide (dougallj.wordpress.com)
69 points by jandrewrogers on Nov 24, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


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


Wow, this is incredibly awesome! I'm speechless...


This is superb! And insane!




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