### A good answer might be:

Yes.

# FPA Chip

In the early days of MIPS, floating point was done on a separate chip. Special instructions were used to bridge the gap between the two chips (such as the two move instructions `mtc1` and `mfc1` we have already seen). Although these days there is usually just one processor chip, some of the instructions act as if the chips were separate.

### QUESTION 2:

(Thought Question: ) Do you think that testing if two floating point values are equal is a common thing to do?