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Add instruction overview, reorder section by most common usage, add 'not' - #7

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Saw a student struggling with a subtle mistake (they forgot clearing rdx before div), turns out they hadn't read through the long explanation for the different instructions.

While the long text is nice, with description, examples etc. I felt that a shorter overview over the different instructions (including a description showing the rdx:rax behavior of mul/div) would be helpful.

While at it, I decided to make some more formatting changes :)

reran with pandoc version 3.1.3
that mul/div operate on 2 concatenated registers is complicated enough imo,
providing an example of the usual
set-rdx-to-0-pattern doesn' hurt
- treats table widths differently (no more awkwardly stretched tables)
- header labels work as on GitHub (allows creating internal links that work in html and on GitHub)
Move it further away from bit manipulation instructions to avoid confusion with `not`
Arithmetic is used more I think
For some weird reason, pandoc used a local path to MathJax (/usr/share/...) when the MathJax path wasn't specified
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Siedler commented Nov 26, 2025

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Hej Anton,

sorry for the long time it took me to respond to this pull request. These were two stressful weeks in the PhD xD

I think your changes sound sensible. Are you part of the tutoring team at FU? If so, and this is discussed with the teaching staff of the TI course, I'm happy to merge this pull request :)

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Gianluca

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