On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 14:25:04 +0200, Binyamin Dissen wrote:

>The only way I could figure out to do it was :
>
>              LCLA  &I,&J
>&J           SETA    exponent (an EQU)
>&I            SETA    (2 SLA &J-1)
>value   EQU &I
>
>Is there no better way?
>
Do you need only powers of 2?

What's the precedence of operators?
   (2 SLA (&J-1)) or
   ((2 SLA &J)-1)

Why not simply:
&I            SETA    (1 SLA &J)  ?

(I feel old.  I remember when conditional and regular operations  such as EQ and
SETA couldn't be mixed.)

-- 
gil

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