Error using Newton-Raphson Iteration Method for Floating Point Division
问题 I am using the Newton-Raphson Algorithm to divide IEEE-754 single-precision floating point values using single precision hardware. I am using the method described at these two links: Wikipedia Newton-Raphson Division Newton-Raphson Method I'm Using However, despite computing Xi to X_3 (i.e. using 3 iterations), my answers are still off a bit. I'm wondering why this is so? I'm comparing my results using MATLAB. Here is the output showing an example of an incorrect result ===== DIVISION RESULT