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Author: Gabriel Torres Last Updated: October 15, 2005 Category: CPU Floating Point Unit Unit inside the processor (CPU) in charge of scientific math (a.k.a. floating point). Up to the 386 the processor didn’t have this unit embedded. At that time you needed to install an external math co-processor (also called arithmetic co-processor) if you needed to perform scientific math (floating point math). Related Terms: ALU CPU Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark this Term

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