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From: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: Right shift vs. divide
Message-ID: <11@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 00:16:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 00:16:31 1986
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Reply-To: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: UniSoft Systems; Berkeley, CA
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>>Argghhh!  It is division that is wrong, not right shift!  -1/2 should
>>be -1, not 0.  Don't hardware people ever take math courses?
>		^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Sure, just ask any math professor and he will tell you that -1/2 should
be -1/2,  NOT -1 or 0    :-)

-Fred