>I wanted to vividly demonstrate how much of a handicap it was to work without floating points. So, did he manage to demonstrate that in the book? Because the

>I wanted to vividly demonstrate how much of a handicap it was to work without floating points. So, did he manage to demonstrate that in the book? Because the page linked here, while explaining how floating points are represented in memory, does not explain how computers perform operations on them, or what purpose does a FPU serve (how does it differ from an ALU).