JR C,30BE,HL-END Jump if overflow. RL C Rotate bit 7 of C into the carry. RLA Rotate the carry bit into bit 0 and bit 7 into the carry flag. JR NC,30BC,HL-AGAIN Jump if the carry flag is reset. ADD HL,DE Otherwise add DE in once. JR C,30BE,HL-END Jump if overflow. 30BC HL-AGAIN DJNZ 30B1,HL-LOOP Until 16 passes have been made. 30BE HL-END POP BC Restore BC. RET Finished. THE 'PREPARE TO MULTIPLY OR DIVIDE' SUBROUTINE This subroutine prepares a floating-point number for multiplication or division, returning with carry set if the number is zero, getting the sign of the result into the A register, and replacing the sign bit in the number by the true numeric bit, 1. 30C0 PREP-M/D CALL 34E9,TEST-ZERO If the number is zero, return RET C with the carry flag set. INC HL Point to the sign byte. XOR (HL) Get sign for result into A (like signs give plus, unlike give minus); also reset the carry flag. SET 7,(HL) Set the true numeric bit. DEC HL Point to the exponent again. RET Return with carry flag reset. THE 'MULTIPLICATION' OPERATION (Offset 04 - see CALCULATE below: 'multiply') This subroutine first tests whether the two numbers to be multiplied are 'small integers'. If they are, it uses INT-FETCH to get them from the stack, HL=HL*DE to multiply them and INT-STORE to return the result to the stack. Any overflow of this 'short multiplication' (i.e. if the result is not itself a 'small integer') causes a jump to multiplication in full five byte floating-point form (see below). 30CA multiply LD A,(DE) Test whether the first bytes of OR (HL) both numbers are zero. JR NZ,30F0,MULT-LONG If not, jump for 'long' multi- plication. PUSH DE Save the pointers: to the second number. PUSH HL And to the first number. PUSH DE And to the second number yet again. CALL 2D7F,INT-FETCH Fetch sign in C, number in DE. EX DE,HL Number to HL now. EX (SP),HL Number to stack, second pointer to HL. LD B,C Save first sign in B. CALL 2D7F,INT-FETCH Fetch second sign in C, number in DE. LD A,B Form sign of result in A: like XOR C signs give plus (00), unlike give minus (FF). LD C,A Store sign of result in C. POP HL Restore the first number to HL. CALL 30A9,HL=HL*DE Perform the actual multipli- cation. EX DE,HL Store the result in DE. POP HL Restore the pointer to the first number. JR C,30EF,MULT-OFLW Jump on overflow to 'full' multiplication. 30E5 LD A,D These 5 bytes ensure that