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The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
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Hacker News | Oct 18, 2026 | pwg
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The result can be positive, negative, or zero. For instance, ⁺0 + ⁺0 is ⁺0 and ⁻0 - ⁺0 = ⁻0. The circuitry to detect 0 to 7 leading zero bits.
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