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____/ nessuno on Tuesday 16 Feb 2010 15:44 : \____
> On Feb 15, 5:32 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> ____/ nessuno on Monday 15 Feb 2010 23:16 : \____
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>> > On Feb 15, 12:52 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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.
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>> Would you really run experiments on a wallet-sized computer?
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>> - --
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> On a netbook, numerical experiments, yes.
Well, then that's a niche market. Not many 'consumers' would do that. :-)
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