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>&#13;Numbers can be expressed in binary, octal, decimal, or hexadecimal. Binary
numbers may be prefixed with a "%" symbol or suffixed with a "b" or "B".
Octal numbers may be prefixed with "@" or suffixed with "Q", "q", "O", or
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be prefixed with "&amp;" if desired. Any constant which begins with a letter
must be expressed with the correct prefix base identifier or be prefixed
with a 0. Thus hexadecimal FF would have to be written either 0FFH or $FF.
Numbers are not case sensitive.&#13;</P
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> A symbol may appear at any point where a number is acceptable. The
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>&#13;LWASM supports the following basic binary operators: +, -, *, /, and %. 
These represent addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and
modulus.  It also supports unary negation and unary 1's complement (- and ^
respectively).  It is also possible to use ~ for the unary 1's complement
operator.  For completeness, a unary positive (+) is supported though it is
a no-op.  LWASM also supports using |, &#38;, and ^ for bitwise or, bitwise and,
and bitwise exclusive or respectively.&#13;</P
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>&#13;Operator precedence follows the usual rules. Multiplication, division, and
modulus take precedence over addition and subtraction.  Unary operators take
precedence over binary operators.  Bitwise operators are lower precdence
than addition and subtraction.  To force a specific order of evaluation,
parentheses can be used in the usual manner.&#13;</P
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>&#13;As of LWASM 2.5, the operators &#38;&#38; and || are recognized for boolean and and
boolean or respectively.  They will return either 0 or 1 (false or true). 
They have the lowest precedence of all the binary operators.&#13;</P
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