From: "Roger Scudder" 

On Saturday, June 05, 2004 2:11 PM, Darin McBride wrote:

> > > > 4. Multiply x by 7 without using multiplication (*) operator.
> > >
> > > x = (x << 3) - x;
> >
> > I like that Roger.  I had done this less clever solution:
> >
> > x = (x << 2) +( x << 1) +  x;

> Less clever, but more correct.  Less likely to overflow the variable

Good point.

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