meaning of floating point
1. floating-point accelerator FPA Additional hardware to perform functions on floating-point numbers such as addition, multiplication, logarithms, exponentials, trigonometric functions and various kinds of rounding and error detection. A floating-point accelerator often functions as a co-processor to the CPU. The term "floating-point accelerator" suggests a physically larger system, often an extra circuit board, whereas a "floating-point unit" is probably a single chip or even part of a chip.
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floating-point accelerator | floating-point notation | floating-point number | floating-point operation | floating-point representation system | floating-point specbaserate | ieee floating point standard | million floating point operations per second | trillion floating point operations per second |
