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Floating point operation


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A floating point operation is the rounded result of the exact operation:

$\displaystyle ($R$\displaystyle \varphi)(x,y,\ldots) =$   R$\displaystyle (\varphi(x,y,\ldots)).
$

It should be noted that to implement R$ \varphi$ the value $ \varphi
(x,y,\ldots)$ does not have to be computed exactly, but merely with sufficient accuracy to uniquely determine the result of the rounding operation.

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