[Ecls-list] How to get floating point underflow to yield zero?

[Julian Stecklina]

Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm pretty sure IEEE 754 says gradual underflow is required, but you are 
> explicitly allowed not to signal anything on underflow.   I think most 
> Lisps turn this off because underflow is usually harmless and signaling 
> on underflow is annoying.

They are only harmless, if you do not care about the result and
correctness of your computation...

Regards,
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Julian Stecklina

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