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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

My most recent exam in Assembly language was based on our two-week-long lesson on how to display 32-bit or 10-digit numbers.

Since this could not be done using the given multiplication and division commands, where the result of an 32-bit over 16-bit division is always 16-bit, then they have to use simulated division, but subtracting the base (ten raised to various numbers) from the original number as many times as possible.

For that two week period, they were not able to finish the execution table I asked them to, and at the same time no one was able to finish the program, for which I had already given the flow chart, that the given execution table was based on.

I already told them that that was the topic of their exam, but so as not to make it exactly like the previous flowchart, I altered it.

This time, for only a six-digit number, starting from a hundred thousand, a certain 32-bit number is added until it is greater than the original number. Then a hundred thousand is subtracted to make it less than the original number, then the new number subtracted from the original number to make it 5-digit.

The addition and subtraction there, by the way, is 32-bit, so they have to use two 16-bit operations, the second of which uses the carry flag.

Then the whole procedure is started again with ten thousand until all the digits of the number to be displayed are extracted.

The students were having a problem with the execution, with when to use the carry flag, so they were asking all these very basic questions in their exam that they should already have asked before the exam, when they were preparing their notes to bring.

And yet they were always complaining that it's difficult, when that would only be based on their amount of preparation.

But, once more I am lenient and tell them that next time, the meeting before the exam will be used for consultation, so that if the students still don't prepare, it's all their fault already.

Session 1733 wants everything, even the answers to the exams, handed to them on a silver platter. Class dismissed.