+void wxULongLongWx::Divide(const wxULongLongWx& divisorIn,
+                           wxULongLongWx& quotient,
+                           wxULongLongWx& remainder) const
+{
+    if ((divisorIn.m_lo == 0) && (divisorIn.m_hi == 0))
+    {
+        // provoke division by zero error and silence the compilers warnings
+        // about an expression without effect and unused variable
+        unsigned long dummy = divisorIn.m_lo/divisorIn.m_hi;
+        dummy += 0;
+    }
+
+    // VZ: I'm writing this in a hurry and it's surely not the fastest way to
+    //     do this - any improvements are more than welcome
+    //
+    //     code inspired by the snippet at
+    //          http://www.bearcave.com/software/divide.htm
+    //
+    //     Copyright notice:
+    //
+    //     Use of this program, for any purpose, is granted the author, Ian
+    //     Kaplan, as long as this copyright notice is included in the source
+    //     code or any source code derived from this program. The user assumes
+    //     all responsibility for using this code.
+
+    // init everything
+    wxULongLongWx dividend = *this,
+                  divisor = divisorIn;
+
+    quotient = 0l;
+    remainder = 0l;
+
+    // check for some particular cases
+    if ( divisor > dividend )
+    {
+        remainder = dividend;
+    }
+    else if ( divisor == dividend )
+    {
+        quotient = 1l;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        // here: dividend > divisor
+        size_t nBits = 64u;
+        wxULongLongWx d;
+
+        #define IS_MSB_SET(ll)  ((ll.m_hi) & (1 << (8*sizeof(long) - 1)))
+
+        while ( remainder < divisor )
+        {
+            remainder <<= 1;
+            if ( IS_MSB_SET(dividend) )
+            {
+                remainder |= 1;
+            }
+
+            d = dividend;
+            dividend <<= 1;
+
+            nBits--;
+        }
+
+        // undo the last loop iteration
+        dividend = d;
+        remainder >>= 1;
+        nBits++;
+
+        for ( size_t i = 0; i < nBits; i++ )
+        {
+            remainder <<= 1;
+            if ( IS_MSB_SET(dividend) )
+            {
+                remainder |= 1;
+            }
+
+            wxULongLongWx t = remainder - divisor;
+            dividend <<= 1;
+            quotient <<= 1;
+            if ( !IS_MSB_SET(t) )
+            {
+                quotient |= 1;
+
+                remainder = t;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+