floats and fractions in x86 assembly | SCHIZONE EP-07

Seventh video in a series on scientific computing from scratch using x86-64 assembly. This video describes the pros and cons of various ways to represent fractional quantities.

code: https://github.com/xmdi/SCHIZONE

5 good resources:

SSE2 instructions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings#SSE2_instructions

floating point numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format

x86 instruction reference: https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/index.html

linux/freebsd syscall concordance: https://www.lurklurk.org/concordance.htmlold draft of System-V

ABI: https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/elf/x86_64-abi-0.99.pdf

secret discord link: https://discord.gg/GSxRQyZKf ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgbPiniv1g0