Mark van Gulik wrote:
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> There *are* cases where treating 0 as
> false and 1 as true is efficient.  For example, max(a,b) can be defined as
> (a+(a>b)*(b-a)),

(a+(a<b)*(b-a))
     ^
is correct here.

Greetings,

Stephan

> which avoids branching (if your CPU & compiler can transfer
> the comparison result, typically the carry bit, into a register suitable for
> multiplication).
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