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# Fixed Only
In addition to not having the standard library available, we don't even have a
floating point unit available! We can't do floating point math in hardware! We
could still do floating point math as software computations if we wanted, but
that's a slow, slow thing to do.
Instead let's learn about another way to have fractional values called "Fixed
Point"
## Fixed Point
TODO: describe fixed point, make some types, do the impls, all that.