>> > What's the fastest way to square a 10-bit number?
>
>Try looking in the applications handbook, the maths routines include
>8 and 16 bit multiplies. Use the 16 bit one but limit the first byte to
>a 2 bit multiply.
>
>Stuart Taylor

What is this "applications handbook?"  Could you please elaborate a little
more about whait it is, what's in it, and where to get it?

Thanks,

        -Matt


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