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Apparatus and method for processing data with a plurality of flag groups - Patent 5991868 (3618 words) |
 | The flags in the first flag group and the second flag group are changed in accordance with the results of the operation. |
 | The flags V8 (3-3) and V16 (4-3) are overflow flags for indicating that an overflow occurs in an arithmetic operation. |
 | The first flag group 3-1 through 3-4 are changed based on the lower 8 bits of the operation result, and the second flag group 4-1 through 4-4 are changed based on all the 16 bits of the operation result. |
| Historic Analysis (2464 words) |
 | It is true that there are no records in Congress speaking to a "flag committee." Historians seeking the truth of the Betsy Ross story have searched through the published proceedings of the Journals of Congress and the minutes of the Continental Congress and found no mention of a flag group. |
 | That the flag of the united states be 13 stripes alternate red and white, that the Union be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation"}. |
 | At the siege of Boston, on January 1, 1776, the Grand Union Flag hoisted by the Continentals was mistaken as a token of surrender. |