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Multiplication and Division

The next two operations that we discuss are multiplication and division. Multiplication is ``repeated addition'' and division is its inverse. We will only discuss these operations superficially - both can be implemented fairly directly from their grade school algorithms. This section was more or less out of the book.



Jeffrey Considine 2001-05-01