Dismal Arithmetic & 3 Progs for 49G & Others

[Dave Britten]

Damn it, Gerald, you're just trying to get me to rewrite all those goofy ports I did. ;D

Actually, this would be pretty simple to add to any of the existing programs. You just need to store another loop counter, a copy of the original base, and depending on the language, a running total, then just stick in an outer loop that calls the multiply routine repeatedly.

Part of me says, yeah, that's a sensible definition of powering, since it maintains x^2 = x*x, but for these operations, x+x != 2*x. So I guess it could reasonably go either way, really.