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Floating Point Unit. Also called arithmetic co-processor.
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Floating Point Unit - another name for an FPA
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a ship-shaped floater or a semi-submersible used to process and export oil and gas.
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Floating-point unit. A specially designed chip that performs floating-point calculations (floating point means there is no fixed number of digits before and after the decimal point; the decimal point can float. In general floating point representations are slower than fixed-point but can handle a larger range of numbers). Computers equipped with an FPU perform certain types of applications much faster than computers that lack one. In particular, graphics applications are faster with an FPU. ...
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Floating Point Unit. Hardware component dedicated to floating-point calculations.
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Floating Point Unit. A microprocessor designed to specialise in floating point maths. Most of today’s CPUs incorporate a FPU.
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Floating Point Unit. A co-processor that takes care of the floating-point operations. The GBA lacks such a processor, so the use of floating-point numbers is a bad idea. Use fixed point instead.
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"Floating Point Unit" The first computer processors were far better at dealing with integers than with real numbers (aka floating point numbers). So a separate FPU processor was developed to handle the floating point calculations. That way, when the CPU encountered a floating-point expression (ie. 1.62 * 0.87359), it would send the calculation to the FPU. Since the FPU is specifically designed to handle floating-point math, it computes expressions involving real numbers more efficiently. ...
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Acronym for Floating Point Unit. A high-speed mathematics coprocessor for a
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A floating point unit (FPU) is a part of a CPU specially designed to carry out operations on floating point numbers. Typical operations are floating point arithmetic (such as addition and multiplication), but some systems may be capable of performing exponential or trigonometric calculations as well (such as square roots or cosines).
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