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Date:      Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:24:16 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Nate Lawson <nate@elite.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, davidm@hpl.hp.com
Subject:   Re: floating point exceptions
Message-ID:  <20000426192416.A8019@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000427093434.A81401@gurney.reilly.home>; from "Andrew Reilly" on Thu Apr 27 09:34:34 GMT 2000
References:  <20000425000523.A17224@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <24238.956752200@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> <20000426110345.A13173@dan.emsphone.com> <20000427093434.A81401@gurney.reilly.home>

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In the last episode (Apr 27), Andrew Reilly said:
> 
> Because 0.0 might be the closest approximation to whatever
> number you were really trying to divide by that the hardware can
> manage.  0 is never an approximation to 1 or -1.

Aaah, but that assumes you're not also trapping on underflow :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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