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From: atbowler@watmath.UUCP (Alan T. Bowler [SDG])
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: More Naughty Bits
Message-ID: <16202@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 22:05:18 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 16 22:05:18 1985
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Reply-To: atbowler@watmath.UUCP (Alan T. Bowler [SDG])
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Summary: 

On the Honeywell large machines (including Multics).
A proper floating point zero (i.e. one that is normalized)
is NOT all zero bits.  A word of all zero bits is taken
as zero by the floating hardware, but it is not properly
normalized, and may cause problems in some calculations.