They use a standard nonrestoring division algorithm that works similarly to how booth's algorithm works for multiplication (although there isn't an elite "modified booth's encoding" kind of thing ...

An example from the Sallys' book: Divide a=39 by b=7. Using the division algorithm, we have 39=7x5+4. Here the dividend is 39, the divisor is 7, the quotient q=5 and the remainder r= 4 and 0<4<7 ...

Therefore, the quotient is either 1 or 0. The division algorithm performs either an addition or subtraction based on the signs of the divisor and the partial remainder.

Learn what an algorithm is with this KS1 primary computing guide from BBC Bitesize for years 1 and 2. We will define what an algorithm is and how they work.

So, an algorithm is the process a computer uses to transform input data into output data. A simple concept, and yet every piece of technology that you touch involves many algorithms.

In his book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos offers a masterfully simple definition: “An algorithm is,” Domingos writes, “a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do.” ...