[Cfp-interest 2858] Re: augmented operations near overflow

Damian McGuckin damianm at esi.com.au
Thu Aug 24 23:10:47 PDT 2023


On Thu, 24 Aug 2023, David Hough CFP wrote:

> ... in the case of overflow, both results are the same, infinity.
> That means, in this case, as with an exact zero result, |x.h| = |x.t|.

Yes and Yes.

> But I still suppose that the algorithm I proposed never yields |x.h| < |x.t|.

Yes. Looks like it.

Thanks - Damian


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