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		15155 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dividing unsigned 8-bit numbers These methods are especially useful in hardware/FPGA implementations where it's infeasible to have a ton of fully pipelined dividers.

andrepd 8 months ago [–]

They are actually useful for optimising compilers too! Mul or mul+shifts is often faster than div

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