Dealing with VERY large numbers

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Floyd
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Provided you use a number which is a power of 2 ( such a 1024 = 2^10 ) you can fake integer division with a shift.

Thus ( size Shr 10 ) is the size divided by 1024. And Shr doesn't care if size is positive or negative.