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

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 23:14:19 +0200

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 23:14:19 +0200
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 21-07-004 21-07-012 21-07-016
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Keywords: architecture, history
Posted-Date: 17 Jul 2021 17:42:32 EDT
In-Reply-To: 21-07-016
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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>


DoDi


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