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Old 9th Jan 2020, 10:30
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Embedded processors can usually be configured regarding their behaviour if a division/0 occurs - ignore or trap,dump and reset. When you choose later option and feed them the same div/0 after restart they would be trapped in a reset loop until you remove it which seems easy in this case but is difficult if you read the 0 from memory.
Therefore we would not do that at the expense of having a not well defined state if a div/0 occured.
Least significant bit of a heading representation in 16bit signed integer would be 0.0109866°
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