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Approximate representation of numbers as a fixed number of digits multiplied by a logarithmic scale.

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Is IEEE 754 float arithmetic associative, commutative, distributive, etc? Why?

Does the associative/commutative/distributive/etc property hold for arithmetic performed with IEEE 754 floats? Obviously the answer is no to most of those questions, but do any of the properties of s …
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