I would presume that processors do division using some more efficient method, given that they don't seem to take an hour when I tell them to divide seven into two billion, but how do they do it?

The current installment covers using Newton’s algorithm to do division. Steve Martin had a famous bit about how to be a millionaire and never pay taxes.

Study proposes a communication-efficient, divide and conquer algorithm that combines information from sub-machines using confidence distributions. The theoretical relationship between the number ...