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            <div>Generally speaking, there are two reasons why people

              may *not* want an FMA operation.</div>

            <div>1. They need their results to be reproducible across

              compilers/platforms. (the most common reason)</div>

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    The reproducibility of floating point calculation is very hard to

    reach  a good survey of the problem is

    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/floating-point-determinism/">https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/floating-point-determinism/</a>

    it mention the fma problem but it only a part of a biggest picture<br>

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