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The ALU is typically a partner component of the Floating Point Unit (FPU), which handles floating-point operations and integer division.
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ALU
Arithmetic Logical Unit (ALU)
The ''arithmetic logical unit'' is the component in a central processing unit which handles certain mathematical operations. These operations typically include integer addition, subtraction, multiplication and logical operators such as And, Or, Xor and Not.The ALU is typically a partner component of the Floating Point Unit (FPU), which handles floating-point operations and integer division.
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