Floating Point Errors

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Errors in Floating-Point Calculations

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• FP Exceptions :: IEEE 754 math exceptions and how to detect them.
• Infinity and NaN :: Special values returned by calculations.
• Status bit operations :: Checking for exceptions after the fact.
• Math Error Reporting :: How the math functions report errors.