Floating-point instructions

Use floating-point instructions when you want to do arithmetic operations on data in the floating-point representation. Thus, you do not have to keep track of the decimal point in your computations. Floating-point instructions also let you do arithmetic operations on both very large numbers and very small numbers, usually providing greater precision than fixed-point decimal instructions.

For further information, see "Floating-Point Instructions" in the applicable Principles of Operation manual.


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