floating-point unit

coprocessor for floating point arithmetic
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floating-point unit

Summary

floating-point unit draws 168 Wikipedia views per month (practices category, ranking #92 of 764).[1]

Key Facts

  • floating-point unit's subclass of is recorded as processor[2].
  • floating-point unit's subclass of is recorded as coprocessor[3].
  • floating-point unit's has use is recorded as floating point[4].
  • floating-point unit's has use is recorded as hardware acceleration[5].
  • floating-point unit's Commons category is recorded as X87 Coprocessors[6].
  • floating-point unit's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/097y_[7].
  • floating-point unit's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/fpu[8].
  • floating-point unit's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as FPU_-_IT[9].
  • floating-point unit's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 110305270[10].
  • floating-point unit's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C110305270[11].
  • floating-point unit's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 31393[12].

Why It Matters

floating-point unit draws 168 Wikipedia views per month (practices category, ranking #92 of 764).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 52 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  6. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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