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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 1986
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1983
Pierre Chevillat, Adliswil, CH;
Dietrich Maiwald, Wadenswil, CH;
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed which, for obtaining the quotient of division operations in a data processing apparatus, generate as an auxiliary value the inverse square root g of the divisor w. The auxiliary value g is then multiplied by the divident v, and the intermediate result again multiplied by the auxiliary value g. An improvement in operation of the data processing apparatus is obtained despite introduction of the auxiliary value because the range covered by the auxiliary value is significantly smaller than that of the direct inverse of the divisor. A preferred application is the area of signal processing in communications.