For anyone (like me) not knowing what subnormal floats are, this StackOfverflow question and answer explain it quite nicely: https://stackoverflow.com/questions

For anyone (like me) not knowing what subnormal floats are, this StackOfverflow question and answer explain it quite nicely: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15140847/denormalized-numbers-ieee-754-floating-point# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15140847/denormalized-nu... Though they use the term denormalized, which AFAICT is the a synonym for subnormal. Edit: Thanks for this great blogpost :)