Multiplication on a common microcontroller is easy. But division is much more difficult. Even with hardware assistance, a 32-bit division on a modern 64-bit x86 CPU can run between 9 and 15 cycles.

Abstract: This research study presents the design of a floating-point ALU which calculates shortest distance between two floating point numbers. Such a unit is used extensively in cluster algorithm.

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