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[Kevin D. Clark]

Stephen Ryan <stephen.p.ryan at dartmouth.edu> writes:

> Aha!  Google for "round to even" -- it's an IEEE floating point
> computation rule.

Note that many systems *can* do IEEE floating point, but by default
don't, since using the native floating point implementation can yield
better performance.

Regards,

--kevin
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