[Open-graphics] Other interesting bits of math to do in FPGAs

[Dieter]

> Am I too old? Adding logs instead of multiplying (And subtracting instead of 
> dividing) was how I learnt to do multiplication adn division before you werte 
> allowed to use calculators in school exams (Early 1980's in NZ :)

Some of us were using calculators in school exams in the 1970s.  Maybe
it was a NZ thing?  :-)

And writing graphics programs that had to fit in 6 KB of core memory
(real core, not semiconductor) along with the interpretor (OS?  What's that?)
and the output device was a teletype with a roll of yellow paper.

Today the kiddies think they are being tortured if they don't have a
lightening fast 3D eye-candy GUI even though it serves no purpose.