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Mark Janssen edited this page Sep 12, 2019
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The CPU word can be architected to give a lot of information to help with computation.
STUB For a 32 bit machine:
- 2 bits? say what the next 6 mean:
- next 6 bits are flags to give error conditions or data on the data (metadata): whether it's a pointer, a name, etc.
- 24 bits of data, giving 1:16M precision: more than 99.9% of the people need.
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