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Gradual Underflow
A floating-point underflow handling mechanism in which results smaller than the smallest normalized number are output as denormalized numbers, preserving gradual precision near zero and avoiding a sudden loss of precision.
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Oct 18
The 8087 contributed the gradual underflow mechanism during the formulation of IEEE 754, namely outputting denormalized numbers rather than simply flushing to zero.
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