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Floating Point Unit (FPU) Definition
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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:42 PM

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Solutions: Floating Point Unit (FPU): A floating point unit or processor is a chip designed to perform arithmetic operations. On microcomputers it may be in the form of a separate coprocessor chip or it may be part of the central processing unit (CPU). The Intel 80486 CPU has a built-in FPU. On minicomputers and mainframes, the FPU is sometimes housed in a separate machine often called an array processor.

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