The present disclosure relates in general to the field of computer development, and more specifically, to data processing.

BACKGROUND

A processor may perform a unary function that takes one argument as an input and generates an output. Examples of unary functions include transcendental functions (e.g., tanh, log 2, exp 2, sigmoid), irrational functions (e.g., sqrt, 1/sqrt), and common rational functions useful for machine learning and neural networks (e.g., 1/x). Some unary functions of an input value (x) are not easily performed using basic mathematic operations such as addition, subtraction, and multiplication.

