Re: How can i find out the quotient?

On 2008-03-13, pnopopop@xxxxxxxxx <pnopopop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For example, go to this link
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~humphrys/Notes/Networks/tanenbaum/3-08.jpg

I'm not sure what you're asking. The image at that link seems to be
showing how to calculate both the quotient and remainder. The only
difference from ordinary long division is that it uses XOR instead of
binary subtraction.

Out of curiosity, is it for an error-correcting code?


- Tim
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