On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's an FPU?
Floating Point Unit, the part of your computer's processor that handles floating-point mathematics. Integer calculations are done in the main CPU, but the FPU (which these days is part of the same hunk of silicon, but used to be a separate purchase) gets all the really hard work farmed off to it. Gross oversimplification, but hopefully helpful. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
