Re: ancient floating point, These days what percentage of a CPU's work involves doing arithmetic computations

From	Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: ancient floating point, These days what percentage of a CPU's work involves doing arithmetic computations
Date	2021-07-17 23:14 +0200
Organization	Compilers Central
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On 7/16/21 6:31 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:

> [I've seen the replica Z1, which is entirely mechanical.  I didn't realize
> it used floating point. -John]

Horst Zuse claims the Z1 had 22 bit floating point arithmetic.
<http://www.horst-zuse.homepage.t-online.de/z1.html>

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