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@@ -299,9 +299,7 @@ provide exceptional default values.
Operations on subnormal numbers are handled in accordance with the IEEE
754-2008 standard.
-In the parlance of the IEEE standard, tininess is detected after
-rounding---that is, the underflow exception is raised only if the rounded
-result is subnormal, even if the unrounded result would have been subnormal.
+In the parlance of the IEEE standard, tininess is detected after rounding.
\begin{commentary}
Detecting tininess after rounding results in fewer spurious underflow signals.