Floating-point unit (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Floating-point unit" in English language version.

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Palmer, John F.; Morse, Stephen Paul (1984). The 8087 Primer (1st ed.). John Wiley & Sons Australia, Limited. ISBN 0471875694. 9780471875697. Retrieved 2016-01-02.

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"GE-2xx documents". www.bitsavers.org. CPB-267_GE-235-SystemManual_1963.pdf, p. IV-4.
PDP-11/45 Processor Handbook (PDF). Digital Equipment Corporation. 1973. Chapter 7 "Floating Point Processor". Retrieved 2025-10-30.
PDP-11 Processor Handbook (PDF). Digital Equipment Corporation. 1979. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
MICRO/PDP-11 Handbook (PDF). Digital Equipment Corporation. 1983. p. 33.
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"Intel 80287XL Numeric Processing Unit". computinghistory.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-02.

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"Acorn Releases Floating Point Accelerator" (Press release). Acorn Computers Limited. 5 July 1993. Retrieved 7 April 2021.

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"Intel 80287 family". www.cpu-world.com. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
"Western Electric 32206 co-processor". www.cpu-world.com. Retrieved 2021-11-06.

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Anderson, Stanley F.; Earle, John G.; Goldschmidt, Robert Elliott; Powers, Don M. (January 1967). "The IBM System/360 Model 91: Floating-Point Execution Unit". IBM Journal of Research and Development. 11 (1): 34–53. doi:10.1147/rd.111.0034. ISSN 0018-8646.
Nave, Rafi (March 1983). "Implementation of Transcendental Functions on a Numerics Processor". Microprocessing and Microprogramming. 11 (3–4): 221–225. doi:10.1016/0165-6074(83)90151-5.

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Jarvis, Pitts (1990-10-01). "Implementing CORDIC algorithms – A single compact routine for computing transcendental functions". Dr. Dobb's Journal: 152–156. Retrieved 2016-01-02.

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Muller, Jean-Michel (2006). Elementary Functions: Algorithms and Implementation (2nd ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Birkhäuser. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-8176-4372-0. LCCN 2005048094. Retrieved 2015-12-01.

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"PDP-6 Handbook" (PDF). www.bitsavers.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09.

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"FSIN Documentation Improvements in the "Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual"". intel.com. 2014-10-09. Archived from the original on 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2020-01-16.

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Muller, Jean-Michel (2006). Elementary Functions: Algorithms and Implementation (2nd ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Birkhäuser. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-8176-4372-0. LCCN 2005048094. Retrieved 2015-12-01.

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Dawson, Bruce (2014-10-09). "Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion". randomascii.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2020-01-16.

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"AMD Steamroller vs Bulldozer". WCCFtech. Archived from the original on 9 May 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2022.

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"FSIN Documentation Improvements in the "Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual"". intel.com. 2014-10-09. Archived from the original on 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
"AMD Steamroller vs Bulldozer". WCCFtech. Archived from the original on 9 May 2015. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
Halfacree, Gareth (28 October 2010). "AMD unveils Flex FP". bit-tech.net. Archived from the original on Mar 22, 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2018.

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Anderson, Stanley F.; Earle, John G.; Goldschmidt, Robert Elliott; Powers, Don M. (January 1967). "The IBM System/360 Model 91: Floating-Point Execution Unit". IBM Journal of Research and Development. 11 (1): 34–53. doi:10.1147/rd.111.0034. ISSN 0018-8646.
Glass, L. Brent (January 1990). "Math Coprocessors: A look at what they do, and how they do it". Byte. 15 (1): 337–348. ISSN 0360-5280.