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Programming With
the x87 Floating-
Point UnitVol. 1 8-1CHAPTER 8
PROGRAMMING WITH THE X87 FPUThe x87 Floating-Point Unit (FPU) provides high-performance floating-point processing capa-
bilities for use in graphics processing, scientific, engineering, and business applications. It
supports the floating-point, integer, and packed BCD integer data types and the floating-point
processing algorithms and exception handling architecture defined in the IEEE Standard 754 for
Binary Floating-Point Arit
