I previously dismissed long division as a meaningless math procedure. Am I backpedaling now in response to readers' comments?

For the people who study the theory of fair division, this is “definitely the biggest result in decades,” Procaccia said. Pieces of Cake Aziz and Mackenzie’s new algorithm builds on an ...

Therefore, the quotient is either 1 or 0. The division algorithm performs either an addition or subtraction based on the signs of the divisor and the partial remainder.

For instance, he tells us the ARM processor used on the Raspberry Pi doesn’t have a divide instruction. Without hardware division you’re left to implement a binary division algorithm.