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Apple Computing Products:
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Floating point explanation?
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<blockquote data-quote="jamin" data-source="post: 49405" data-attributes="member: 5432"><p>Integers are whole numbers (100) Floating points are numbers with a Decimal point (100.001) </p><p></p><p>Computers have an easy time Calculating Integers and 99.99% of all computers Made have a co-processer to deal with Floating point numbers.</p><p>Even the 8088 had a Co-Processer the 8087.</p><p>Now a days The co-processer is on the CPU plus have Special algorithms (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, Altivec) to increase performance on Floating Point calculations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jamin, post: 49405, member: 5432"] Integers are whole numbers (100) Floating points are numbers with a Decimal point (100.001) Computers have an easy time Calculating Integers and 99.99% of all computers Made have a co-processer to deal with Floating point numbers. Even the 8088 had a Co-Processer the 8087. Now a days The co-processer is on the CPU plus have Special algorithms (MMX, SSE, 3DNow, Altivec) to increase performance on Floating Point calculations. [/QUOTE]
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