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Re^3: 64-bit division anomolies (Solved.)

by salva (Canon)
on Feb 17, 2015 at 10:07 UTC ( #1116960=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: 64-bit division anomolies (Solved.)
in thread 64-bit division anomolies (Solved.)

My method, first builds an approximation of the solution of a/b as...
s1 = ((a / 2) / b) * 2;
a / 2 is done using the bug-free shift-right operator (>>) and results always in a number with bit 64 unset, so we can divide it by b without incurring in the convert-to-NV bug. Again multiplying by 2 is done with the shift-left operator (<<).

Then, we use the approximation to build the exact solution as:

s = s1 + (a - s1 * b) / b

Well, actually, in order to do everything using bug-free operations, the code uses the following equivalence:

s2 = (a / 2) / b s1 = s2 * 2 s = s1 + (a - s1 * b) / b s = s2 * 2 + (a - (s2 * b) * 2) / b
where $d is s2, and $e is (a - (s2 * b) * 2).

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