Multiplication on a common microcontroller is easy. But division is much more difficult. Even with hardware assistance, a 32-bit division on a modern 64-bit x86 CPU can run between 9 and 15 cycles.

Abstract: This research study presents the design of a floating-point ALU which calculates shortest distance between two floating point numbers. Such a unit is used extensively in cluster algorithm.

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An unfortunate reality of trying to represent continuous real numbers in a fixed space (e.g. with a limited number of bits) is that this comes with an inevitable loss of both precision and accuracy.

Abstract: We introduce a number system called "jumping-floating-point" (JFP), which has both the characteristics of the fixed-point and the floating-point number systems. We also introduce a DSP ...