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It seems a little late to introduce arithmetic now, when we’ve been using it with wild abandon for the last two chapters. Up to now, though, all the symbols I have used have had the same meanings in BASIC, except for the increment and decrement operators, which I introduced separately.
... and then the different branches of arithmetic—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“Contrariwise,” continued Tweedledee, “if it ain’t so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.”
Through the Looking Glass
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Jones, R., Stewart, I. (1987). Arithmetic and Logic. In: The Art of C Programming. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8685-8_4
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