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How to test for overflow when multiplying floats

I want to further emphasize and underscore gnasher729's comment which is completely correct. NaN and Infinity were added exactly so you wouldn't need to do such checks all the time. That is, they were …
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Do formulas involving fewer repetitions of variables give higher numerical precision?

First, I want to say that it is not the case in general that an algorithm that minimizes the number of uses of the inputs is more accurate, at least for IEEE 754 floating point. For example, compensa …
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