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Divide-and-correct methods for multiple precision division

By Marvin L. Stein
Communications of the ACM, August 1964, Vol. 7 No. 8, Pages 472-474
10.1145/355586.364796
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A division problem is defined and notation to relate it to the problem of multiple precision operation in a digital computer is introduced. A basic divide-and-correct method for multiple precision division is formulated and its known properties briefly reviewed. Of particular interest is the fact that the method produces at each step a set of precisely three estimates for the desired result, one of which is exact.

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