OT: computer arithmetic question on integer division

[James Kosin]

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Globe Trotter wrote:

| HI,
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| Does anyone know how the computer *actually* does integer division?
| I understand that with powers of 2, it just does bit shifting, but
| what about other powers, do you know?
|
| (for example, 5/2 = 101/10 so shift the 101 by 1 and get 10, but
| how does 5/3 work, lets say?)
|
| Thanks and best wishes!
|
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Mr Globe Trotter,

Go to your text books and look it up yourself.
As someone already said, look up any good computer architecture book.

PS:  This question "smells" an awful lot like a homework question.

Things actually get interesting when you start talking about 1/10 or
even 1/100.  These fractions get represented by the computer as
repeating binary numbers.  Which is one reason why 0.01 + 0.01 may not
equal 0.02 exactly.

James Kosin

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