🤔 Ah yes, the thrilling escapade of a 40-year-old chip's bit shifter, because nothing screams relevance like dissecting ancient silicon. 🕵️‍♂️ Let's dive deep into the arcane world of 1980s math coprocessors, because apparently, someone thought this needed a resurrection. 🤷‍♂️
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Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter

Floating-point numbers are very useful for scientific programming, but early microprocessors only supported integers directly. 1 Although...