Chapter 14. Floating-Point Deux
Since the floating-point values have been discussed, it is now time to discuss some of the operations that can be performed with them, such as bit masking and comparisons.
Why would someone wish to generate a bit mask for a floating-point number? Due to the nature of the mantissa and exponential bits, a floating-point value can be manipulated.
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SQRT — Square Root
The reciprocal and square root are two mathematical operations that have special functionality with vector processors. The division operation is typically performed by multiplying the reciprocal of the denominator by the numerator. A square ...
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