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→History: clarification: it must be clear that the rounding is to the destination precision and that there is a single rounding (i.e. there are no intermediate results, these are the exact results that are directly rounded to the destination precision); also warn about the possible wider exponent range (which is explicitly allowed by IEEE 754-1985). |
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* The ability of [[IEEE 754#Exception handling|exceptional conditions]] (overflow, [[Division by zero|divide by zero]], etc.) to propagate through a computation in a benign manner and then be handled by the software in a controlled fashion.
These features would be inherited into IEEE 754-1985 (with the exception of the encoding of special values and exceptions), though the extended internal precision of x87 means it requires explicit rounding of
== Range of floating-point numbers ==
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