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____/ nessuno on Monday 15 Feb 2010 23:16 : \____
> On Feb 15, 12:52 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> HP loads Android onto a netbook
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>> | Branded as a Compaq device, HP's Airlife 100
>> | netbook is powered by the same Qualcomm
>> | Snapdragon ARM processor that's found in a
>> | number of recently released smartphones
>> | including Google's Nexus One.
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> I haven't looked at the ARM processor. I wonder if it runs floating
> point as well as Intel, for example, intel chips carry extra precision
> at the register level, handle nans, infinities and subnormal numbers
> correctly and implement the different rounding modes. Most of this is
> the IEEE standard, but not all chips follow that, and the extra
> precision goes beyond that standard. It does cost more to implement,
> however.
Would you really run experiments on a wallet-sized computer?
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