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This is usually the case for floating-point representations. On the other hand, when
this restriction is not part of the representation of the operand, a prenormalization
step has to be included. This is achieved by a left shift, as is described in Section 5.4
for integer division.
Range of Quotient
For normalized fractional divisor and fractional dividend (not necessarily nor-
malized), the quotient is in the range 0 < q < 2. If a normalized fraction is
required, a normalization step should be included.
Algorithm and Implementation
of Fractional Division
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