Division system

Claim 1

A BINARY DIGITAL DIVIDING SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING A SIGNAL-REPRESENTED QUOTIENT IN FLOATING-POINT FORM INCLUDING A MANTISSA AND A CHARACTERISTIC OF SIGNAL-REPRESENTED NUMERATOR AND DENOMINATOR VALUES IN SIMILAR FORM, COMPRISING: FIRST REGISTER MEANS FOR REGISTERING SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DENOMINATOR MANTISSA; MEANS FOR SHIFTING THE CONTENTS OF SAID FIRST REGISTER MEANS WHEREBY TO NORMALIZE SAID DENOMINATOR MANTISSA; SECOND REGISTER MEANS FOR REGISTERING SIGNALS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NUMERATOR MANTISSA; BINARY MEANS INITIALLY IN A FIRST STATE FOR MANIFESTING FIRST AND SECOND MODES OF OPERATION FOR SAID SYSTEM; MEANS FOR SHIFTING THE CONTENTS OF SAID SECOND REGISTER MEANS INTO MORESIGNIFICANT DIGIT LOCATIONS UNTIL A ONE APPEARS IN THE MOST-SIGNIFICANT DIGIT LOCATION IN SAID SECOND REGITER MEANS; THIRD REGISTER MEANS FOR REGISTERING THE QUOTIENT MANTISSA AS DEVELOPED DIGIT-BY-DIGIT FROM THE MOST-SIGNIFICANT DIGIT; MEANS OPERATIVE UPON EACH SHIFT OF THE CONTENTS OF SAID SECOND REGISTER MEANS TO ENTER THE NEXT DIGIT OF THE QUOTIENT MANTISSA SAID THIRD REGISTER MEANS AS A ONE DURING SAID FIRST MODE AND AS A ZERO DURING SAID SECOND MODE; MEANS FOR SUBSTRACTING THE CONTENTS OF SAID FIRST REGISMEANS FROM THE CONTENTS OF SAID SECOND REGISTER MEANS UPON THE OCCURRENCE OF A ONE IN THE MOSTSIGNIFICANT DIGIT LOCATION OF SAID SECOND REGISTER MEANS; MEANS OPERATIVE DURING SAID FIRST MODE OF OPERATION FOR ENTERING THE NEXT DIGIT OF THE QUOTIENT MANTISSA IN SAID THIRD REGISTER MEANS AS A ONE IF A POSITIVE REMAINDER RESULTS AND AS A ZERO IF A NEGATIVE REMAINDER RESULTS FROM SAID SUBTRACTION; MEANS OPERATIVE DURING SAID SECOND MODE OF OPERATION FOR ENTERING THE NEXT DIGIT OF THE QUOTIENT MANTISSA AS A ZERO IF A POSITIVE REMAINDER RESULTS AND AS A ONE IF A NEGATIVE REMAINDER RESULTS FROM SAID SUBTRACTION; MEANS FOR ALTERING THE STATE OF SAID BINARY UPON THE OCCURRENCE OF A NEGATIVE REMAINDER FROM SAID SUBTRACTION.