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floating-point number: noun
floating-point unit, FPU: noun

floating-point number N

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floating-point number COMPUT

Gleitkommazahl f

floating-point unit, FPU N

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floating-point unit, FPU COMPUT

Gleitkommaeinheit f

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It was capable of both fixed and floating-point operation. en.wikipedia.org

Strict floating-point calculations require that even if a platform offers higher precision during calculations, intermediate results must be converted to single/double. en.wikipedia.org

It consists of two floating-point pipelines and a floating-point register file. en.wikipedia.org

The integer pipeline is seven stages long, and the floating-point pipeline is ten stages long. en.wikipedia.org

The resulting orientation must be re-normalized to prevent floating-point error from successive transformations from accumulating. en.wikipedia.org

The baseconvert function converts the value to a floating-point number, which loses accuracy for numbers above implementation-specific limits. en.wikipedia.org

For this reason, financial software tends not to use a binary floating-point number representation. en.wikipedia.org

Functional unit latencies were between a very fast 3 clock cycles (increment add) and 29 clock cycles (floating-point divide). en.wikipedia.org

These methods are commonly implemented in hardware floating-point units for performance reasons. en.wikipedia.org

A major architectural mistake was that both integer instructions and floating-point instructions used the same register file. en.wikipedia.org

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