Re: Some thoughts on integer exponentiation (and an implementation)

[Stefan Ginsberg <stefanginsberg@...>]

> On 15 May 2017, at 01:13, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> 
> Shifting is just multiplication or division by two.  At the CPU level,
> there is a distinction made between shifts (left (multiplication) which
> shifts in 0s and right (division) which shifts in the sign bit) and rotates
> (shifts the bits, rotating in the carry bit).
> 
> -spc

What I really meant is that a shift operator which disallows shifting out (all) bits would be less-than-useful.