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Re: It looks like he's at it again!

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From: sous-realiste
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 1990 21:46
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>of course, an undergraduate cs major could do it by themselves with a
>copy of knuth in hand.
>...
>additive sequences, even middle square (just for illustrative
>purposes) are all trivial (and portable) in hll's.  berkeley's random

How would you do (2^n)+1 modulo sequence on an n-bit machine in an HLL?
Knuth describes how to do it in assembly, by intercepting the carry/overflow.
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