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Uncommon card · Science
Floating-point unit, an Uncommon card
A floating-point unit, numeric processing unit, colloquially math coprocessor, is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out operations on floating-point numbers.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 30,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Typical operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root.
- Modern designs generally include a fused multiply-add instruction, which was found to be very common in real-world code.
- Some FPUs can also perform various transcendental functions such as exponential or trigonometric calculations, but the accuracy can be low, so some systems prefer to compute these functions in software.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Floating-point unit article was read about 30,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Floating-point unit
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Floating-point unit (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ruben de Rijcke, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
