Comment on Detached Point ArithmeticComments−bradrn1yEr… this may be a stupid question, but how is this actually different to ordinary floating-point arithmetic? Ordinary IEEE-754 floating-point numbers already store the mantissa and exponent in separate fields, don’t they?−HextenAndy1yExactly.
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Er… this may be a stupid question, but how is this actually different to ordinary floating-point arithmetic? Ordinary IEEE-754 floating-point numbers already store the mantissa and exponent in separate fields, don’t they?
Exactly.