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<h4 class="subsection">15.2.7 Small Quotient Division</h4>
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<p>An NxM division where the number of quotient limbs Q=N-M is
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small can be optimized somewhat.
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<p>An ordinary basecase division normalizes the divisor by shifting it to make
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the high bit set, shifting the dividend accordingly, and shifting the
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remainder back down at the end of the calculation. This is wasteful if only a
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few quotient limbs are to be formed. Instead a division of just the top
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<em>2*Q</em> limbs of the dividend by the top Q limbs of the divisor can be
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used to form a trial quotient. This requires only those limbs normalized, not
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the whole of the divisor and dividend.
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<p>A multiply and subtract then applies the trial quotient to the M-Q
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unused limbs of the divisor and N-Q dividend limbs (which includes Q
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limbs remaining from the trial quotient division). The starting trial
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quotient can be 1 or 2 too big, but all cases of 2 too big and most cases of 1
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too big are detected by first comparing the most significant limbs that will
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arise from the subtraction. An addback is done if the quotient still turns
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out to be 1 too big.
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<p>This whole procedure is essentially the same as one step of the basecase
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algorithm done in a Q limb base, though with the trial quotient test done only
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with the high limbs, not an entire Q limb “digit” product. The correctness
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of this weaker test can be established by following the argument of Knuth
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section 4.3.1 exercise 20 but with the <em>v2*q>b*r+u2</em> condition appropriately relaxed.
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