Oracle and Floating Point Processors

Many unix systems have the option of purchasing a Floating Point processor as an add-on to the normal processor board e.g. HP PA-RISC, 386 based systems, etc.

1. Does Oracle perform floating point calculations internally ?
2. Is Oracle designed to make use of floating point processors if they exist on the system ?
3. To what extent will this increase the performance of Oracle ?

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