Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU

I guess the unused entries spell &quot;bad FC&quot; (for floating constant). Also I think constants 6 through 10 are relevant for the decimal-to-binary conversion or vice versa, as evident from the following observation:<p><pre><code> 0x5c3bd5191b525a249 ~= 2^123 &#x2F; 10^17 0x470de4df820000000 = 2^13 * 10^16</code></pre>

Fun trivia: for many years Intel documentation was wrong on error bounds in trigonometric functions: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;randomascii.wordpress.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;randomascii.wordpress.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;10&#x2F;09&#x2F;intel-underesti...</a>

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Ken, how has the technology for interconnects changed over the years? Seeing all of these disparate regions in 2D it really interests me on how they are routed.