Philippe Martin wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > > > > Philippe Martin wrote: > >> John Machin wrote: > >> > >> > Have you considered asking on a newsgroup where your problem might > >> > actually be on-topic, like: > >> > comp.lang.c > >> > >> Yes, I came here for the "algorithm" question, not the code result. > >> > > > > This is comp.lang.python, not comp.algorithms > > > > Why are you avoiding naming the chip and its compiler? > > > I must disagree on that one: There are many threads on this site where > people just have fun talking algorithm. I'm not an algo. expert and I know > there are many here.
Get this through your head: some time in the last 25 years someone will have made some general-purpose functions for doing the elementary 32-bit operations with a C compiler that offers no more than 16 bit arithmetic, and published the C source code. Go find it. > > > > Why are you avoiding naming the chip and its compiler? > I am not but I do not see what that brings to the discussion: Readers may actually know something about the device and/or compiler!! > but if you > wish ==> > > on one device, the processor in an 8-bit arm and the X-compiler is made by > epson 1. You still haven't *NAMED* the CPU and the compiler!! 2. Do you mean ARM as in "Acorn/Advanced RISC Machines"?? They make 8-bit CPUs???? 3. How does the device manage to compute the 8-decimal-digit number that is your input?????? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
