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empiricustoday at 4:24 PM1 replyview on HN

Does anyone knows the resources for the algos used in the HW implementations of math functions? I mean the algos inside the CPUs and GPUs. How they make a tradeoff between transistor number, power consumption, cycles, which algos allow this.


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groostoday at 8:40 PM

Here's one way to do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC