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   ocr: Notice that dog doesn't have to be mentioned on the mulvar line. All the Dynamo library rouines preserve the X-register, so the x-register still has the constant for dog in it. I there is no destination variable, _mulvar generates code that leaves the x-register alone. MANAGING ARRAYS We typically store large blocks of data in arrays, which is why the 128 simple variable limit is not so bad. Arrays are a little trickier than variables, and a pointer-based system works best. When you calculate a base pointer to a row, the row elements will be in linear order from there on in memory. So, for a t ...