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IEEE 754

The standard that fixes how almost every computer stores floating-point numbers and how their arithmetic must round.

IEEE 754 (current revision 2019) specifies binary and decimal floating-point formats, the special values, five rounding-direction attributes, and requires +, -, *, /, sqrt and fused multiply-add to be correctly rounded.

See also

signed zero underflow rounding mode
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