Shift Register Instead of For loop

Mathcad has not the ability to do bit shift operations on integers - there are no explicit data types, anyway.

What would be the reason for that kind of operation? If its speeding up calculations or creating more compact programs, then it would not be an option to create bit shifting routines yourself using conventional methods.

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Have a look at these functions, which I think can be adapted to what you want and do work a bit like shift registersBitvecs.xmcd

Hello,

What operations do you want to do with / after the shift register?

If you can give examples of the type of calculation that you neeed there may be ways to achieve your goals.

Regards

Andy

A little more on this. If one wants to create something that behaves like a shift register you can build something wher each element copies its neighbor on each clock pulse - but a much more efficient method is to write data into an array, incrementing the entry pointer each time (modulo the length of the shift register L) and read the data out also using a read pointer which is L addreses behind the entry pointer and also increments each time (modulo L). In this scheme the data in the array does not move, so only one read and write is needed per cycle, regardless of the register length. This can be fairly easily achieved in Mathcad if the register is implemented as a bit array (if bits are the required element size)