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Originally Posted by jeff5may
I just finished some reading on the AVR/ATMEGA chipset, and learned something useful: the processor has no hardware support for division at all! Integers, longs, floats, whatever gets divided will be compiled into repeated subtraction. WOW.
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Hmmm ... I missed that !
Even the whimpy μprocessor I programmed on 35 years ago had hardware divide. That was quite unusual back then, but I just kind of assumed it was there.