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At the least, overflow is addressed: > nan is also the result of operations that produce results that are too large to be represented.
by norswap 13y ago
At the least, overflow is addressed:
> nan is also the result of operations that produce results that are too large to be represented.
- GyrosOfWar 13y agoIt's addressed, but in the wrong way. IEEE 754 has positive and negative infinity for a reason. Why do there have to be 255 zero values? Also, what about rounding modes? Floating point math is really, really hard and this specification makes it look too easy.
- kzrdude 13y agoThey want to allow fast "addition with equal exponents" in a single cycle and that requires a zero value for each possible exponent.
- GyrosOfWar 13y agoI see, that makes sense.