第一:

x/3 = (x/4) / (1-1/4)

然后求x/(1 - y)

x/(1-1/y)
  = x * (1+y) / (1-y^2)
  = x * (1+y) * (1+y^2) / (1-y^4)
  = ...
  = x * (1+y) * (1+y^2) * (1+y^4) * ... * (1+y^(2^i)) / (1-y^(2^(i+i))
  = x * (1+y) * (1+y^2) * (1+y^4) * ... * (1+y^(2^i))

y = 1/4:

int div3(int x) {
    x <<= 6;    // need more precise
    x += x>>2;  // x = x * (1+(1/2)^2)
    x += x>>4;  // x = x * (1+(1/2)^4)
    x += x>>8;  // x = x * (1+(1/2)^8)
    x += x>>16; // x = x * (1+(1/2)^16)
    return (x+1)>>8; // as (1-(1/2)^32) very near 1,
                     // we plus 1 instead of div (1-(1/2)^32)
}

虽然它使用了+，但有人已经实现了按位操作的add。

Yet another solution. This should handle all ints (including negative ints) except the min value of an int, which would need to be handled as a hard coded exception. This basically does division by subtraction but only using bit operators (shifts, xor, & and complement). For faster speed, it subtracts 3 * (decreasing powers of 2). In c#, it executes around 444 of these DivideBy3 calls per millisecond (2.2 seconds for 1,000,000 divides), so not horrendously slow, but no where near as fast as a simple x/3. By comparison, Coodey's nice solution is about 5 times faster than this one.

public static int DivideBy3(int a) {
    bool negative = a < 0;
    if (negative) a = Negate(a);
    int result;
    int sub = 3 << 29;
    int threes = 1 << 29;
    result = 0;
    while (threes > 0) {
        if (a >= sub) {
            a = Add(a, Negate(sub));
            result = Add(result, threes);
        }
        sub >>= 1;
        threes >>= 1;
    }
    if (negative) result = Negate(result);
    return result;
}
public static int Negate(int a) {
    return Add(~a, 1);
}
public static int Add(int a, int b) {
    int x = 0;
    x = a ^ b;
    while ((a & b) != 0) {
        b = (a & b) << 1;
        a = x;
        x = a ^ b;
    }
    return x;
}

这是c#，因为这是我手边的东西，但与c的区别应该很小。

这是Python中的，基本上，字符串比较和一个状态机。

def divide_by_3(input):
  to_do = {}
  enque_index = 0
  zero_to_9 = (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
  leave_over = 0
  for left_over in (0, 1, 2):
    for digit in zero_to_9:
      # left_over, digit => enque, leave_over
      to_do[(left_over, digit)] = (zero_to_9[enque_index], leave_over)
      if leave_over == 0:
        leave_over = 1
      elif leave_over == 1:
        leave_over = 2
      elif leave_over == 2 and enque_index != 9:
        leave_over = 0
        enque_index = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)[enque_index]
  answer_q = []
  left_over = 0
  digits = list(str(input))
  if digits[0] == "-":
    answer_q.append("-")
  digits = digits[1:]
  for digit in digits:
    enque, left_over = to_do[(left_over, int(digit))]
    if enque or len(answer_q):
      answer_q.append(enque)
  answer = 0
  if len(answer_q):
    answer = int("".join([str(a) for a in answer_q]))
  return answer

int div3(int x)
{
  int reminder = abs(x);
  int result = 0;
  while(reminder >= 3)
  {
     result++;

     reminder--;
     reminder--;
     reminder--;
  }
  return result;
}

用Pascal编写程序并使用DIV操作符。

因为问题被标记为c，你可以在Pascal中编写一个函数，然后在c程序中调用它;这样做的方法是特定于系统的。

但是这里有一个在我的Ubuntu系统上运行的例子，安装了Free Pascal fp-编译器包。(我这么做完全是出于不合时宜的固执;我不敢说这是有用的。)

divide_by_3。不是:

unit Divide_By_3;
interface
    function div_by_3(n: integer): integer; cdecl; export;
implementation
    function div_by_3(n: integer): integer; cdecl;
    begin
        div_by_3 := n div 3;
    end;
end.

c:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

extern int div_by_3(int n);

int main(void) {
    int n;
    fputs("Enter a number: ", stdout);
    fflush(stdout);
    scanf("%d", &n);
    printf("%d / 3 = %d\n", n, div_by_3(n));
    return 0;
}

构建:

fpc divide_by_3.pas && gcc divide_by_3.o main.c -o main

示例执行:

$ ./main
Enter a number: 100
100 / 3 = 33

要将一个数除以3，而不使用乘法、除法、余数、减法或加法操作，在汇编编程语言中，惟一可用的指令是LEA(地址有效负载)、SHL(向左移动)和SHR(向右移动)。

在这个解决方案中，我没有使用与运算符+ - * /%相关的操作

我假设有输出数字在定点格式(16位整数部分和16位小数部分)和输入数字的类型是短int;但是，我已经近似输出的数量，因为我只能信任整数部分，因此我返回一个短int类型的值。

65536/6是固定点值，相当于1/3浮点数，等于21845。

21845 = 16384 + 4096 + 1024 + 256 + 64 + 16 + 4 + 1.

因此，要用1/3(21845)来做乘法，我使用指令LEA和SHL。

short int DivideBy3( short int num )
//In : eax= 16 Bit short int input number (N)
//Out: eax= N/3 (32 Bit fixed point output number
//          (Bit31-Bit16: integer part, Bit15-Bit0: digits after comma)
{
   __asm
   {
      movsx eax, num          // Get first argument

      // 65536 / 3 = 21845 = 16384 + 4096 + 1024 + 256 + 64 + 16 + 4 + 1

      lea edx,[4*eax+eax]     // EDX= EAX * 5
      shl eax,4
      lea edx,[eax+edx]       // EDX= EDX + EAX * 16
      shl eax,2
      lea edx,[eax+edx]       // EDX= EDX + EAX * 64
      shl eax,2
      lea edx,[eax+edx]       // EDX= EDX + EAX * 256
      shl eax,2
      lea edx,[eax+edx]       // EDX= EDX + EAX * 1024
      shl eax,2
      lea edx,[eax+edx]       // EDX= EDX + EAX * 4096
      shl eax,2
      lea edx,[eax+edx+08000h] // EDX= EDX + EAX * 16384

      shr edx,010h
      movsx eax,dx

   }
   // Return with result in EAX
}

它也适用于负数;结果具有正数的最小近似值(逗号后的最后一位数字为-1)。

如果您不打算使用运算符+ - * /%来执行除3的操作，但可以使用与它们相关的操作，我建议另一种解决方案。

int DivideBy3Bis( short int num )
//In : eax= 16 Bit short int input number (N)
//Out: eax= N/3 (32 Bit fixed point output number
//          (Bit31-Bit16: integer part, Bit15-Bit0: digits after comma)
{
   __asm
   {
      movsx   eax, num        // Get first argument

      mov     edx,21845
      imul    edx
   }
   // Return with result in EAX
}