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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IEEE 754 vs. 854 (floating-point arithmetic)
Keywords: floating-point exceptions
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Date: 30 May 89 23:34:40 GMT
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Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <6@pzbaum.uucp> jimv@pzbaum.UUCP (Jim Valerio) writes:
 >   (1)	Replace subnormal/denormal numbers by a single value (call it epsilon
 >	or infinitesimal), and define arithmetic underflow in terms of this
 >	limiting value.
 
One of the nice things of denormalized numbers is that addition and subtraction
cannot underflow.
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