From c2e3917d6b1feab90c3632fb76acacd672ff9e06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Buland <mike@xagasoft.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:19:08 -0600
Subject: Better comments!
---
src/number.cpp | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
(limited to 'src')
diff --git a/src/number.cpp b/src/number.cpp
index 81aefbe..93ddc0a 100644
--- a/src/number.cpp
+++ b/src/number.cpp
@@ -429,8 +429,9 @@ void Number::divide( const Number &rhs, Number &q, Number &r ) const
if( r.aFrac.getSize() != iScale )
r.aFrac = PackedIntArray( aFrac.getBitWidth(), iScale );
- // The numerator is re-created every step to match the divisor and
- // anchor
+ // We seed the numerator with the bare minimum data that we potentially
+ // need to actually divide. We need at least as many digits in the
+ // numerator segment as we have in the denominator.
Number nNum( iScale, iRadix );
for( int j = iAnchor-iNumShift;
nNum.aInt.getSize() < nDiv.aInt.getSize(); j++ )
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