Overflow and Truncation in Floating Point Types
Explore how floating point types manage overflow by turning excessive values into infinity and maintain fractional parts without truncation. Learn the impact of bit precision on accuracy and how this affects computations in D programming.
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Overflow is not ignored
Despite being able to take very large values, floating point types are prone to overflow as well. Nevertheless, floating point types are safer than integer types in this regard because overflow is not ignored. The values that overflow on the positive side become .infinity, and the values that overflow on the negative side ...