Electronic ratio calculator performing aligning and subtraction operations

Claim 1

IN A SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING A DIVIDING OPERATION, THE COMBINATION WHICH COMPRISES, A DIVIDEND REGISTER, A DIVISOR REGISTER, MEANS FOR STORING DATA REPRESENTATIVE OF DESIRED NUMBERS IN THE REGISTERS, ALIGNING MEANS RENDERED OPERATIVE IN RESPONSE TO THE STORAGE OF DATA IN THE REGISTERS FOR DIGITALLY SHIFTING THE DIVISOR DATA TO THE LEFT TO THE LAST POSITION AT WHICH THE DIVIDEND HAS A GREATER VALUE THAN THE DIVISOR, AND DIVIDING MEANS RENDERED OPERATIVE IN RESPONSE TO THE COMPLETION OF OPERATION OF THE ALIGNING MEANS FOR (1) REPEATEDLY SUBTRACTING THE DIVISOR FROM THE DIVIDEN UNTIL A NEGATIVE ANSWER IS PRODUCED, (2) RESTORING THE DIVIDEND TO ITS VALUE PRIOR TO THE LAST SUBTRACTING OPERATION AND DIGITALLY SHIFTING THE DIVISOR ONE DIGIT TO THE RIGHT WHEN A NEGATIVE ANSWER IS PRODUCED, AND (3) REPEATING THE SUBTRACTING, RESTORING AND SHIFTING OPERATIONS UNTIL THE DIVISOR IS RESTORED TO ITS INITIAL POSITION AND A NEGATIVE ANSWER IS PRODUCED, THE NUMBER OF SUBTRACTING OPERATION OF A NEGATIVE ANSWER BEING REPRESENTATIVE OF PRODUCTION OF A NEGATIVE ANSWER BEING REPRESENTATIVE OF A SUCCEEDING DIGIT OF THE QUOTIENT.