>I need to divide a number 0 - 65535 by a constant 182.024.
>If I divide by 182 this would give an error of around 0.013%,
>which might be OK, I just don't know yet.

I cannot believe people still don't know about this work of art:

http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist/codegen/constdivmul.htm

Nikolai should make money off of this.  But he's a nice guy so he lets us
use it for free :)

--Andrew

ps: Here's a hint on how accurate you can make it:

; Approximated constant: 0.00549376, Error: 0.000362065 %
;     Input: ACC0 .. ACC1, 16 bits
;    Output: ACC0 .. ACC1, 9 bits
; Code size: 56 instructions


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