Integer math algorithms without integer datatypes or math-specific hardware

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I previously posted about simple, programmable, Turing-complete machines .
That post discussed a programmable machine that optimized ease-of-programming and ease-of-implementation while still being able to run any program.
With those goals in mind I put together a Python package L2 which emulates such a simple machine in software.
For the L2 emulator, I used math operations and…

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