Daniel E. Atkins
Daniel E. Atkins is the author of a 1968 IEEE Transactions on Computers paper, "Higher-Radix Division Using Estimates of the Divisor and Partial Remainders," which formalized a higher-radix, table-driven division method later used across a generation of digital-computer arithmetic units.
In this vault, Atkins is cited — by Intel's own engineers, as their reference [2] — as the technical source for the "PD-plot" division method the Pentium implemented, the same method whose defective lookup table produced the Pentium FDIV bug. He is the genealogical layer beneath the SRT algorithm itself: SRT names how the digit is chosen; Atkins's 1968 paper is Intel's own citation for the specific lookup-table formulation of that choice.
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