[HN Gopher] Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU
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       Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU
        
       Author : mef
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2025-01-05 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | kens wrote:
       | Author here for your Pentium questions...
        
         | CaliforniaKarl wrote:
         | Hello! In your view, did the move to IEEE 754 floating-point
         | make things easier or harder for CPU designers?
        
           | kens wrote:
           | My guess is that it made things both easier and harder.
           | Harder in the sense that you couldn't just throw together
           | floating point circuits; you had to deal with lots of special
           | cases. But easier in the sense that the tricky design
           | decisions were already made for you. And easier to test
           | against a known standard.
        
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