Although it's important to remember that shift left by n bits is the same as multiplying by 2^n, and right is the same as div by 2^n. Rotate is a little trickier, admittedly.
Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Dec 2015, at 14:00, Peter TB Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 07/12/2015 13:45, Geoff Canyon wrote: >> http://adventofcode.com >> >> Two related problems each night at midnight EST. It started easy, but it >> seems to be getting more challenging. The leaderboard is the top 100, >> sorted first by how many problems you've solved, and then by the time you >> submitted solutions, so it ends up being a speed competition each night. I >> admit a little frustration that last night I was twice as slow as about 20 >> people, but maybe they didn't have to code their own left and right >> bit-shift operations. (do we have those built-in and I just missed it?) > > Hi Geoff, > > I just checked -- there are sadly no bit shift/rotate operations in LiveCode > Script, but we have added them to LiveCode Builder. > > Peter > > > -- > Dr Peter Brett <[email protected]> > LiveCode Open Source Team > > LiveCode on reddit: https://reddit.com/r/livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
