Andy Shaw <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu> wrote:

> Does anyone have any more information or a reference to what
> exactly Microsoft did? I'm kind of interested in this sort of thing
> and would like to follow up on it!

Andy:

That was a reference to a Nathan Myhrvold interview I read a year or
two ago... In the interview, Mr. Myhrvold mentioned (and seemed very
proud of) a BCD math routine that Microsoft had "discovered" through
that sort of brute-force algorithm development.

The interesting thing is that, as far as I can tell, their "new"
algorithm was actually in use at least 40 years ago.  Perhaps if
Microsoft's high-powered computer scientists had ever written
assembly code for small microcontrollers, they'd have a bit more of
the "old knowledge".

-Andy

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