Information handling device

Claim 1

IN A CYCLICALLY OPERABLE COMPUTER FOR PERFORMING MULTIPLICATION WITH MULTI-DIGIT NUMBERS IN A MODE OF OPERATION WHEREIN SELECTIVE MULTIPLES OF A MULTIPLICAND ARE GENERATED AND STORED, ADDITIONAL MULTIPLES BEING GENERATED ESSENTIALLY SPONTANEOUSLY FROM THOSE PREVIOUSLY STORED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE VALUE OF RESPECTIVE, SUCCESSIVE DIGITS OF A MULTIPLIER; INCLUDING: MEANS FOR STORING SAID SELECTIVE VALUES OF SAID MULTIPLICAND, MEANS FOR GENERATING SAID ADDITIONAL MULTIPLES OF SAID MULTIPLICAND, SAID LAST-NAMED MEANS FURTHER COMPRISING: MEANS FOR TRANSFERRING A SIGNAL REPRESENTATION OF ONE OF SAID SELECTED MULTIPLES FROM SAID STORAGE MEANS TO A DIGITAL DATA-RECEIVING DEVICE, FIRST MEANS OPERATIVELY CONDITIONED BY SAID TRANSFER MEANS TO EFFECT A STRAIGHT TRANSFER OF SAID SIGNAL REPRESENTATION FROM SAID STORAGE MEANS, ADDITIONAL MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH SAID FIRST MEANS AND CONDITIONED BY SAID TRANSFER MEANS TO EFFECT THE TRANSFER OF SAID SIGNAL REPRESENTATION ALTERNATIVELY IN A COMPLEMENTED OR NON-COMPLEMENTED REPRESENTATION; SECOND MEANS OPERATIVELY CONDITIONED BY SAID TRANSFER MEANS TO EFFECT A SHIFTED TRANSFER OF SAID SIGNAL REPRESENTATION FROM SAID STORAGE MEANS, FURTHER MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED WITH SAID SECOND MEANS AND CONDITIONED BY SAID TRANSFER INITIATING MEANS TO EFFECT THE TRANSFER OF SAID SHIFTED SIGNAL REPRESENTATION ALTERNATIVELY IN COMPLEMENTED OR NON-COMPLEMENTED REPRESENTATION, MEANS ACTUATED IN RESPONSE TO GENERATION OF A COMPLEMENTED SIGNAL REPRESENTATION TO INCREMENT THE SUCCEEDING MULTIPLIER DIGIT, AND FURTHER MEANS ACTUATED IN RESPONSE TO GENERATION OF SAID COMPLEMENTED SIGNAL REPRESENTATION TO TRANSFER AN INDICATION THEREOF TO SAID DIGITAL DATA RECEIVING DEVICE WHEREBY SAID ADDITIONAL MULTIPLES ARE GENERATED FROM SAID PREVIOUSLY STORED MULTIPLES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONING OF SAID FIRST OR SECOND MEANS AND WHETHER THE TRANSFER IS EFFECTED IN SAID COMPLEMENTED OR NON-COMPLEMENTED REPRESENTATION.