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# Chapter 2. Floating Point Utilities

Table of Contents

Rounding Truncation and Integer Conversion
  Rounding Functions
  Truncation Functions
  Integer and Fractional Part Splitting (modf)
Floating-Point Classification: Infinities and NaNs
Sign Manipulation Functions
Facets for Floating-Point Infinities and NaNs
  Introduction
  Reference
  Examples
  Portability
  Design Rationale
Floating-Point Representation Distance (ULP), and Finding Adjacent Floating-Point Values
  Finding the Next Representable Value in a Specific Direction (nextafter)
  Finding the Next Greater Representable Value (float_next)
  Finding the Next Smaller Representable Value (float_prior)
  Calculating the Representation Distance Between Two floating-point Values (ULP) float_distance
  Advancing a floating-point Value by a Specific Representation Distance (ULP) float_advance
  Obtaining the Size of a Unit In the Last Place - ULP
Floating-point Comparison

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