The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

Re:The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip by nine_k on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:44PM (#48520725)

/* It's a bummer that there is addition but no vipition. */

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Re:The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip by ErroneousBosh on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:53PM (#48520789)

I knew a guy who bred snakes but could never really get much out of his adders.

Turns out what he needed to do was saw up some tree trunks to make rough platforms for them, and they bred like crazy.

Adders can multiply really efficiently with log tables.

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Re:The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip by inigyou on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:13PM (#48520963)

slow clap

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Re:The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip by Sharlin on Saturday June 13, 2026 @06:29PM (#48522133)

(It's an old, old joke.)

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Re:The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip by inigyou on Saturday June 13, 2026 @07:12PM (#48522411)

and my slow clap processor made it into this thing

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