For more of this sort of thing: http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-Henry-S-Warren/dp/0201914654/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287508570&sr=8-1 http://www.

For more of this sort of thing: http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-Henry-S-Warren/dp/0201914654/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287508570&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Delight-Henry-S-Warren/dp/0201... which should be on every serious programmers bookshelf. Take a look, also, at the wonderful MIT HackMem report. Its Wikipedia entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAKMEM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAKMEM, has pointers to online versions. The venerable PDP-10's influence shows, but there's lots of cool stuff there. Knuth's Art of Computer Programming,read closely, occasionally divulges clever hacks, particularly in the exercises.