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MattPalmer1086yesterday at 6:21 PM1 replyview on HN

Sure, you can't use built in multiplication, but it isn't a very big hurdle. Just use repeated squares, it's fairly trivial to implement. I've worked on software that did this on very low power mobile payment devices.


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SkiFire13yesterday at 6:50 PM

Repeated squares is a way to implement exponentiation, not multiplication.

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