Was division via reciprocal considered?

Torbjörn Granlund tg at gmplib.org
Tue Oct 6 19:19:58 UTC 2015


"AllUltima1 ." <allultima1 at gmail.com> writes:

  I was wondering if you guys had considered dividing via a multiplicative
  inverse (reciprocal), which some have considered to be the best way. I
  reviewed
  https://gmplib.org/manual/Division-Algorithms.html#Division-Algorithms and
  it seems like it isn't used, but I wanted to know why not.
  
It is used.  Follow your link above.

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