Comment by ijidak

I had to lol when I saw there was a patent for that.

Divide both operands by 2 was my first idea before loading the page. (I like to try that sometimes before reading the articles.)

I didn't think about the carry bit, but it seems like that would be a logical solution after 5 minutes of extra thinking.

I'm not sure how that's patentable.

That's insane to me.

But maybe there is more too it.

I didn't read the patent itself.