Re: Floating point problems

[Jochen Kuepper <jochen uni-duesseldorf de>]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 y0000218@rzsrv2.rz.tu-bs.de wrote:

> Just doing anything with a number around 1e-310 raises an FP exception,
> smaller _and_ larger numbers dont.

I guess this is because these numbers are represented as denormals, and the
Alpha chip cannot deal any operations on these in hardware :-?

Greetings,
Jochen
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