Ken Shirriff on Nostr: Intel's Pentium processor (1993) can compute sines, logarithms, and other special ...
Intel's Pentium processor (1993) can compute sines, logarithms, and other special functions. To do this, it has a ROM with 304 floating-point constants. I reverse-engineered this ROM and extracted the constants. You can see pi in the ROM, binary 11.001001..., encoded in the transistor pattern. 1/n
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