Re: Engineering Archaeology
Steve Litt via Ale <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:20:14 -0800 Alex Carver via Ale <[email protected]> wrote: > Similar argument as has been stated here "You already > need to know the math if you want to use the slide rule. It's for > accuracy not for cheating." I'll say one thing in defense of the argument you reference. Adding with carry, subtraction with borrowing, compound multiplication and multidigit division, plus repeatedly making my own multiplication charts gave me a complete understanding of base 10 and powers. So learning base 16, base 12 and base 2 was easy as pie. So the first time I programmed a 6800 in hexidecimal I knew exactly what was going on. So decades later, when it became necessary to increase the efficiency of my prime number generator, I had no problem with bitwise operations. https://troubleshooters.com/codecorn/primenumbers/primenumbers.htm SteveT Steve Litt Featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list [email protected] https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo