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ken <ken@cleveland.lug.net> writes:

> Yes, that's much better.  But it occurs to me also that this always 
> resolves to 65536.  So why not just use the constant and save processing 
> time?  The answer is that this would cause an overflow.  

Because I wanted to make it plainly obvious how it works.

BTW, the symbol << is in (require 'cl)

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