Most of the digital computers do not have floating point hardware bec

1.	Most of the digital computers do not have floating point hardware because
A.	floating point hardware is costly
B.	it is slower than software
C.	it is not possible to perform floating point addition by hardware
D.	of no specific reason.
Answer» B. it is slower than software

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