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The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
>  Analogue multiplication is the holy grail and can be dome using the
>  exponential characteristics of bipolar transistors
>
> https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/ADL5391.pdf

The electronics there is far beyond me but how general (and how
reliable) can this be made?

The operations I’m currently interested in are modular multiplication,
addition and subtraction with comparatively small moduli (12-bit and
23-bit, currently). It’s a well-undertood problem with digital
computation, of course, but I’m curious about whether there’s another
option here.

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