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roger10-4
1205 days ago
Horner’s method [0] is also commonly used on small microcontrollers without divide (or multiply) instructions.
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https://www.ti.com/lit/an/slaa329a/slaa329a.pdf
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kjs3
1203 days ago
Look out. Any time someone brings up microcontroller multiply, there's a someone who is compelled to chime in with "Well
I've
never needed to multiply on a microcontroller, so why do you need to!".
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dev_tty01
1205 days ago
Or when the controller has a divide but it is painfully slow.
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