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Subject: Re: Continuations
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:45:29 +0000, John Savard wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 03:51:50 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>>I can remember a Comp Sci professor waxing lyrical about p-adic number
>>systems, as an alternative to conventional p-ary ones. The key thing was
>>that division was no more complex than multiplication.
>
> And addition, I suppose, is the same complexity too. But comparison
> kills you; you need to apply the Chinese Remainder Theorem every time
> you want to print out a number.

You can make FADD/FSUB/FCMP easy (Standard IEEE organization)
OR
You can make FMUL/FDIV easy (logarithmic organization)

In both cases performing the "other" calculation is rather
equally hard. FADD/FSUB/FCMP <-> FMULL/FDIV

I suggest that logarithmic organization makes FMAC very hard.
>
> John Savard