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Generally, a floating-point add instruction takes more clock cycles then a corresponding integer add instruction.

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Step-by-step explanation:

A typical contemporary CPU knows two primary information classes: integer and floating point.

Floating point arithmetic instructions take more clock cycles than integer instructions.

Integer point generally takes 1 or 2 clock cycles for executing add instruction whereas floating point takes 3 or 4 instructions for executing add instruction.

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