Ken Shirriff on Nostr: Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point chip in 1980 to make math faster. The chip ...

Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point chip in 1980 to make math faster. The chip does tangents, square roots, and so forth, but fundamentally everything is computed through additions and subtractions, performed by an adder at the heart of the chip. Let's look at the adder's circuitry... 1/N