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Q: I'm considering installing a game whose Readme file says it won'
t step quickly on anything but a "floating-point computer." What does that
mean? in what manner would I know if I had one?

A: There are no "floating-point computers" for se. The Readme file
in your game is referring to a computer equipped with a floating-point
unit (FPU)-a processor optimized to perform calculations upon floating-
point numbers (numbers with fractional parts) as oppos to integers
(whole numbers). The FPU also called a floating-point processor
or math coprocessor,