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The very first paragraph of the article says this and then goes on to say the trick gets the mantissa roughly right too: > You can multiply two numbers by addi
by advisedwang 2y ago
The very first paragraph of the article says this and then goes on to say the trick gets the mantissa roughly right too:
> You can multiply two numbers by adding their exponents. So just with the exponent-addition you will be within a factor of 2 of the right result. But this will actually be much better and get within 7.5% of the right answer. Why?