Re: Double length integer arithmetic

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From: peter da silva
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:43

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In article <BzCCI2.4q8@apollo.hp.com> gardner_c@apollo.hp.com (Cal Gardner) writes:
>                 BTW - the 1620 did all of its
>                 arithmetic via table-lookup.  The multiplication and
>                 addition tables had to be loaded into the machine.
>                 Memory to memory operations and the mode was decimal.

Anyone got a technical manual on the 1620 (CADET)? I seem to be collecting
stuff like that, so I might as well go whole hog and start a library.
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