Come up with a question and stream of consciousness reasoning that would justify this answer: a combinational logic circuit within the CPU 's processor known as the arithmetic logic unit or ALU
The question is: The actual mathematical operation for each instruction is performed by a combinational logic circuit within the CPU's processor known as the arithmetic logic unit or ALU. In general, a CPU executes an instruction by fetching it from memory, using its ALU to perform an operation, and then storing the result to memory. Beside the instructions for integer mathematics and logic operations, various other machine instructions exist, such as those for loading data from memory and storing it back, branching operations, and mathematical operations on floating-point numbers performed by the CPU's floating-point unit (FPU).

Answer this question: this holds the actual processing in the cpu?
Stream of consciousness: The important part for answering this question is: The actual mathematical operation for each instruction is performed by a combinational logic circuit within the CPU's processor known as the arithmetic logic unit or ALU.