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Rall Wraps Around

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Charles Johnson5/30/2009 10:52:59 am PDT

re: #182 Tatterdemalian

“Wraps around.” Damn, I love it when computer jagon enters mainstream usage. I wonder if anyone even remembers who invented that term, and why it was called “wrapping around” instead of, say, “rolling over” or “edge jumping.”

Well, I do. One use is as a term referring to bit shift operations, in which the high order bit wraps around to the low order bit, or vice versa.