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by saagarjha 43 days ago
> It was IEEE 754 working as advertised. The standard pins down the storage format. It does not pin down behavior.

IEEE 754 absolutely does pin down behavior.

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This article is full of LLM-induced inconsistency.

That being said, many hardware instruction does not follow strict IEEE 754 behavior.

You don't understand. In the modern AI-infested World, it is more important to make grandioese claims with em-dashes or periods working as hype-catalyst, than it is to be correct.