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		spookie on Dec 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation CPUs do use a ton o LUTs under the hood.

UniverseHacker on Dec 13, 2024 [–]

I wonder if this was inspired by this discussion, but this just made the front page. I didn’t realize the famous Pentium fdiv bug was due to an error in a lookup table used for division: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42391079

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