Timeline for How to write a C program for multiplication without using the * and + operators?
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| Jan 15, 2014 at 12:44 | comment | added | MSalters | There's always printf increment : printf("%*cc%n\n", count, &count, 'c'); (Prints 'c' count times, then another 'c', and stores the number of characters written back in count. | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 15:01 | comment | added | greggo | +1, but noting that it could be too slow, and you could add multi-thread support, carefully locking the 'count++' :-) | |
| S Jan 12, 2014 at 9:06 | history | suggested | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Copy edited. |
| Jan 12, 2014 at 9:03 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Jan 11, 2014 at 20:20 | comment | added | Darren Stone | @Timtech |= 1 (will work on 50% of numbers, 100% of the time) | |
| Jan 11, 2014 at 20:06 | comment | added | Timtech | @DarrenStone -= -1 | |
| Jan 11, 2014 at 18:28 | comment | added | Darren Stone | You have my up vote. I heard Monte Carlo is what NASA uses for its arithmetic. But I'd like to see this without the two instances of the ++ operator. | |
| Jan 11, 2014 at 17:27 | history | answered | Petr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |