On 6/8/05, Bill Briggs <email@hidden> wrote:
At 10:53 AM -0400 6/8/05, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>Since these bitwise operations are how math is accomplished in
>binary, btw, I think calling them "binary math" is perfectly
>reasonable.
I'd say that was stretching the semantics a bit.
Only if you have a very limited idea of what constitutes "math".
The field of mathematics includes a lot more operations than addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division, and bitwise operations are
nothing if not mathematical. You can define them as functions
with domains and ranges; they have identity values and inverses . . .
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