Re:Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium divis...
by ernst_mulder on Sunday December 29, 2024 @04:42AM
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Thank you very much for this detailed article.
I never realised this is how floating point division can be implemented. Actually funny how I didn't realise that multiple integer division steps are required to implement floating point division :-)
In hindsight one could wonder why the unused parts of the lookup table were not filled with 2 and -2 in the first place.
I never realised this is how floating point division can be implemented. Actually funny how I didn't realise that multiple integer division steps are required to implement floating point division :-)
In hindsight one could wonder why the unused parts of the lookup table were not filled with 2 and -2 in the first place.