Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but with floating point, denormalized/denormal numbers aren't just numbers with a magnitude less than 1, they're numbers so sm

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but with floating point, denormalized/denormal numbers aren't just numbers with a magnitude less than 1, they're numbers so small that it's no longer possible to adjust the exponent in the usual way, so leading zeroes are used in the mantissa. This reduces precision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985#Examples https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/FLP05-C.+Do+not+use+denormalized+numbers https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/FLP05-C.+Do+no...