This severely affects processor performance. A 32-bit CPU can add two 32-bit integers with one machine code instruction; however, a library routine including bit manipulations and multiple arithmetic ...

Joseph L. Gerver, L. Thomas Ramsey, Sets of Integers With No Long Arithmetic Progressions Generated by the Greedy Algorithm, Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 33, No ...

Operands in arithmetic or logical expressions are always text. However, an operand that represents a number can be temporarily converted to a numeric value when an expression is evaluated. By default, ...

The macro facility is a string handling facility. However, in specific situations, the macro processor can evaluate operands that represent numbers as numeric values. When the macro processor ...