Re: Funny old trick

"*** T. Winter" wrote:
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> Oh, it is quite clever. But there are so many people that discovered
> it independently. The whole point is that in C it makes no sense.
> Now, how about getting the decimals of an unsigned integer number
> below 1000 using only shifts and additions/subtractions...

Why limit yourself to values below 1000? See:

<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/dubldabl.txt>

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