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Line 37: The speed of floating-point operations, commonly measured in terms of [[FLOPS]], is an important characteristic of a [[computer system]], especially for applications that involve intensive mathematical calculations. AFloating-point numbers can be computed using software implementations (softfloat) or hardware implementations (hardfloat). [[floating-point unit\|Floating-point units]] (~~FPU~~FPUs, colloquially a math [[coprocessor\|coprocessors]]) ~~is a part of a computer system~~are specially designed to carry out operations on floating-point numbers and are part of most computer systems. When FPUs are not available, software implementations can be used instead. == Overview ==

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