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It was IEEE 754 working as advertised. The standard pins down the storage format. It does not pin down behavior.

IEEE 754 absolutely does pin down behavior.

This article is full of LLM-induced inconsistency.

That being said, many hardware instruction does not follow strict IEEE 754 behavior.

You don't understand. In the modern AI-infested World, it is more important to make grandioese claims with em-dashes or periods working as hype-catalyst, than it is to be correct.

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