computers suck at division (a painful discovery)
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 Published On Dec 1, 2022

I tried to take on a simple task. I TRIED to do a simple assembly problem. But, the flaws of the ARM architecture ultimately almost defeated me. Computers suck at division, and there's a few reasons for that. Division is so hard for computers, that the ARM processor core didn't have a divide instruction until 2004. Even now, certain ARM Cortex M series processers don't have the divide instruction.

So then, how do the processors do division? Watch the video and find out ;)

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