Ken Shirriff on Nostr: Smart mathematicians figured out Pentium's division algorithm and the missing entries ...
Smart mathematicians figured out Pentium's division algorithm and the missing entries in 1995 by examining the pattern of errors. But I can confirm it in silicon. Moreover, I see 16 missing entries in the table, not just 5, but 11 of them don't cause errors due to luck. 5/9
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