The definition of division

drw@euclid.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:18:03 GMT

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From: drw@euclid.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:18:03 GMT
Keywords: arithmetic
References: 92-10-075 92-11-025

joe@babel.ho.att.com (Joseph M Orost) writes:
      In order to have the round-to-zero rule "laid to rest," first you have to
      convince all the hardware designers out there that their DIV instruction
      is broken: GOOD LUCK!


If I remember correctly, the National 32000 architecture had *both*
flavors of division.


Dale


Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu
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