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This is about software emulated FP. OFC NetBSD used the FP module in CPU's since long ago.

Also, FP is not math, it's just a kind of math. And even Forth users will use a fixed point before going into float. With 32 bits, they will just scale the point and call it a day.

And seasoned Forth users will just use quotient arithmetic and output fractional parts as two items in the stack.



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