Economical Iterative and Range-Transformation Schemes for Division

1 April 1971

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Computers

Vol. C-20 (4) , 470-472
https://doi.org/10.1109/t-c.1971.223270

Abstract

It is shown that the Wilkes-Harvard and Newton-Raphson iterative division schemes with an order of convergence more than two or three are uneconomical for realization in computers.

Keywords

ITERATIVE
CONVERGENCE
UNECONOMICAL
RAPHSON
NEWTON
WILKES
RANGE TRANSFORMATION SCHEMES

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