> The underlying problem is that multiplication is much harder to perform with hardware than addition, especially with 1980s-era technology. The solution is that the chip uses base-2 logarithms in many places because adding logarithms is equivalent to multiplying the values.
Maybe it would have been obvious to me if I had taken calculus, but this blew my mind.
Maybe it would have been obvious to me if I had taken calculus, but this blew my mind.