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

Huh? This is just false, isn't it? AFAIK, it pins down behavior, and the differences come from things like changing the order of operations (i.e. accumulating rounding error in a different order). I'm not an expert, though.
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gnabgib 43 days ago
It does not pin down the behaviour.. just a storage format. See the NaNs (many representations, unspecified bits), the zeros (both), subnormals, the multiple rounding rules (no behaviour required).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

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