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===Goldschmidt division===
Goldschmidt (after [[Robert E.Elliott Goldschmidt]])<ref>Robert E. Goldschmidt, Applications of Division by Convergence, MSc
dissertation, M.I.T., 1964</ref>
division uses [[series expansion]] to converge to the quotient. The strategy of Goldschmidt is repeatedly multiply the dividend and divisor by a factor ''F'' to converge the divisor to 1 as the dividend converges to the quotient ''Q'':