floating point question on MSP430

From: David R. McCoy (laserprojector2003_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:57:49 GMT

Hi All,

What is TI talking about when they refer to the floating point package(FPP)?
Is is able to be used on any of their uC?

I need the uC to take the square root of a number and it seems that I'll
have to use the FPP to do it. Is that true?

What is the FPP used for?

Thanks

David

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