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drnooo
on Oct 6, 2013
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Ethiopian Binary Math
This has made it to HN at least a few times. Maybe it should be part of math curriculum in schools so we wouldn't keep having this conversation.
troydj
on Oct 7, 2013
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There is also a reference to this method on page 61 of SICP (footnote 40 of exercise 1.18).
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html...
halflings
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One of my professors (I'm a French comp. sci student) taught us this as an intro on how we could build an Arithmetic Logic Unit (as part of a hardware architecture course).
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