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Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by rbanffy on Thursday October 29, 2009 @04:29PM (#910833)
"finding a square root on paper."

That's painful!

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Re:For Texas Instruments, Calculator Hackers Don't Add Up by RiderOfGiraffes on Friday October 30, 2009 @05:26AM (#911754)
Actually it's pretty easy. It also follows from the basics of long division, which underpins how CRC algorithms work.
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