Conformance
There is no guarantee that a platform supporting the CommonPoint application system will adhere perfectly to all numerical standards. For example, a hardware floating-point unit might not treat some exceptional cases of overflow or underflow in accordance to the IEEE standards. Or a floating-point unit might not compute all finite, unexceptional results accurately. At a higher level, the C++ compiler in a development environment might not support FPCE features such as hexadecimal floating constants or accurate binary-decimal conversions. Refer to the documentation for you platform's hardware and development environment for details of their features.
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