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Free42 with IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating-point -- interested in a sneak preview?
02-24-2014, 08:41 PM
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Thomas Klemm Offline
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Addendum: Free42 with IEEE 754-2008 decimal floating-point
Quote:Because the significand is not normalized, most values with less than 34 significant digits have multiple possible representations; 1×102=0.1×103=0.01×104, etc. Zero has 12288 possible representations (24576 if you include both signed zeros).
Thus maybe not a bug. Still strange. I'd definitely recommend to normalize the results.
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