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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How to div only once to get remainder and quotient?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:39:43 -0700
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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
> Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> writes:
>
>> On March 12, 2020 18:39, Francis Assissi wrote:
>>
>>>>   *ptr = '0' + (number & 1);
>>> *ptr = '0' ^ number & 1;
>>
>> While both statements generate the same results, I find the first statement
>>>>   *ptr = '0' + (number & 1);
>> clearer as to it's intent. This statement says "*ptr shall contain either 
>> the character '0', or the character '0'+1".
>
> I might write
>
>   *ptr = "01"[number & 1];

I might write

    *ptr = (number&1)["01"];

if I were in a particularly perverse mood.

(I kid, I kid.)

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips Healthcare
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */