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(Actually there is an unimportant case where there's a practical 
difference: detecting Underflow for square root when one is not going to 
use the result if there is an underflow is trivial [just inspect the 
exponent] for 'before rounding', but requires calculation for 'after 
rounding'.)

Mike














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