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On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:51:17 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

> On the other hand, I am advocating that some Elementary Functions be
> raised to first class citizens of ISA so that SIM() is 20 cycles instead
> of 150 cycles. Why, because today, we understand enough about the cal-
> culations, polynomials, error sources, to build in HW things that are
> just as accurate as SW can build and nearly 7×-10× faster.

I can remember a Comp Sci professor waxing lyrical about p-adic number 
systems, as an alternative to conventional p-ary ones. The key thing was 
that division was no more complex than multiplication.