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It is possible to exploit the built in floating point arithmetic of the processor
without using the standard C++ built in floating point data types?

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Sure -- if you know assembly language you can access the math coprocessor, but there's not much point in doing that because that'sa what C/C++ does anyway.

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@OP: Why would you want to do that?

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