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That is, where an unfused multiply–add would compute the product b × c, round it to N significant bits, add the result to a, and round back to N significant bits, a fused multiply–add would compute the entire expression a + (b × c) to its full precision before rounding the final result down to N significant bits.
Booth's algorithm examines adjacent pairs of bits of the 'N'-bit multiplier Y in signed two's complement representation, including an implicit bit below the least significant bit, y −1 = 0. For each bit y i, for i running from 0 to N − 1, the bits y i and y i−1 are considered. Where these two bits are equal, the product accumulator P is
This is obviously true when the algorithm starts. When the algorithm terminates, a or b will be zero so p will contain the product. Run the following loop eight times (once per bit). It is OK to stop when a or b is zero before an iteration: If the rightmost bit of b is set, exclusive OR the product p by the value of a. This is polynomial addition.
For 8-bit integers the table of quarter squares will have 2 9 −1=511 entries (one entry for the full range 0..510 of possible sums, the differences using only the first 256 entries in range 0..255) or 2 9 −1=511 entries (using for negative differences the technique of 2-complements and 9-bit masking, which avoids testing the sign of ...
Horner's method evaluates a polynomial using repeated bracketing: + + + + + = + (+ (+ (+ + (+)))). This method reduces the number of multiplications and additions to just Horner's method is so common that a computer instruction "multiply–accumulate operation" has been added to many computer processors, which allow doing the addition and multiplication operations in one combined step.
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Here we consider operations over polynomials and n denotes their degree; for the coefficients we use a unit-cost model, ignoring the number of bits in a number. In practice this means that we assume them to be machine integers.
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