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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients mark.dickinson, steve.dower
Date 2021-12-09.08:12:33
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It's a bit cheap and nasty, but I think we could simply replace the line:

    if (fabs(x) < 1.0)

in is_error with

    if (fabs(x) < 2.0)

perhaps with an explanatory comment. All we need to do is distinguish underflow from overflow, and 2.0 is still clearly a _long_ way away from any overflow boundary.

It would be good to have a test that would trigger the behaviour, too.
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