On Feb 1, 8:25 pm, "Krypto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The correct answer as told to me by a person is > > (N>>3) + ((N-7*(N>>3))>>3) > > The above term always gives division by 7
No it doesn't. The above term tends towards N * (9/64), with some significant rounding errors. 9/64 is a fairly poor (6 bit) approximation of 1/7 but the principle is the same as the solution I proposed above. Nicko -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
