floating-point in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Translations for floating-point in the French»English Dictionary (Go to English»French)

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A major architectural mistake was that both integer instructions and floating-point instructions used the same register file.
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It consists of two floating-point pipelines and a floating-point register file.
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It had four execution units: an integer unit, a floating-point unit, a load/store unit and a branch unit.
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Divides have variable latency that depends on whether the operation is being performed on single or on double precision floating-point numbers and numbers.
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The resulting orientation must be re-normalized to prevent floating-point error from successive transformations from accumulating.
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Instead, they work with finite-precision approximations called floating-point numbers.
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A machine with a longer floating-point add latency or with multiple adders would require more accumulators to run in parallel.
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For this reason, financial software tends not to use a binary floating-point number representation.
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Functional unit latencies were between a very fast 3 clock cycles (increment add) and 29 clock cycles (floating-point divide).
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All floating-point instructions except for divide have four-cycle latency.
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