When one learns elementary mechanics in a physics course, certain parallels are often illustrated between the analysis of circular motion and the standard description of linear motion: angular momentum and linear momentum, moment of inertia and mass, etc. Drawing such parallels can assist the learning process both mnemonically through the similarities and conceptually through the contrasts. Chapters 4 through 6 discussed Itanium integer instructions, several groupings of which have direct analogues in instructions for data in floating-point formats, as depicted in Table 8-1. Other groupings of Itanium integer instructions with no floating-point counterparts include the shift, byte-manipulation, and data-independent branch instructions. Conversely, several groupings of floating-point instructions discussed in this chapter have no direct integer counterparts.
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