For anyone new to the scene, who also may have trouble falling asleep on occasion, I recommend reading the ANSI/IEEE 754-1985 standard on Floating-Point operations and precision handling generally. It's this kinda stuff that'll put hair on your chest.
Yeah, I was the architect of the 8087 math coprocessor, which was the basis for that standard. My partner in crime, John Palmer, did the math part, so he had the hairy chest...
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