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by nraynaud 3076 days ago
"In addition, though the embodiment presented herein represents an apparatus and associated method for bounded floating point addition and subtraction, it is presented as an example of bounded floating point operations. By extension, the same inventive apparatus for calculating and retaining a bound on error during floating point operations can be used in other floating point operations such as multiplication, division, square root, multiply-add, and other floating point functions."

The hard part has been left as an exercise for the examiner.