On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:06:25PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote:
> /*
> ** Hopefully, I am not annoying anyone with all of this.
> ** This is a brief demonstration of how Newton's division algorithm
> works:
> */
Well, have you looked at Postgres implementation? I don't know if it's
Newton or not, but it certainly is not simple (I didn't take the time to
understand it).
Have a look at src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c function div_var()
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