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Re:Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction by magicalhippo on Monday December 30, 2024 @06:52AM (#42548505)
It's a neat trick, and could be very useful on microcontrollers which doesn't have hardware division but does have hardware multiplication.
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Re:Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction by actionfromafar on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @08:42AM (#42558637)
Hm, like 68000?
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Re:Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction by pechay on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @06:02PM (#42562518)
The 68k has both signed and unsigned 32/16 bit divide instructions.
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