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Re: Help! Programming question with triggers

it is concise in C - but unless the CPU has a HW multiplyer then multiplyer that one line of code might compile into something that will take hundreds of machine cycles to execute in assembler

when you only need an '=' getting clever to make your C look concise is usually a big mistake.