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Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by pm215 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @11:55AM (#28446265)
The Arm ARM says FNMADD is "Floating-point Negated fused Multiply-Add", so the position of the hyphens points strongly to "n(madd)" rather than "(nm)add".
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Re:Fans of a 2013 Japanese soccer game tracked down a bizarr... by a1369209993 on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:36PM (#28450270)
> ARM says FNMADD is "Floating-point Negated fused Multiply-Add", so the position of the hyphens points

Never mind the hyphens, what do they think a "Negated fused Multiply" is?

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