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///
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/// Additionally, `f32` can represent some special values:
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///
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- /// - `-0`: this value exists due to how floats are encoded. -0 == 0 is true, but for other
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- /// operations they are not equal and the difference can be useful to certain algorithms.
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- /// For example, operations on negative numbers that underflow to 0 will usually generate -0
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- /// instead of + 0.
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+ /// - -0.0: IEEE 754 floating point numbers have a bit that indicates their sign, so -0.0 is a
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+ /// possible value. For comparison `-0.0 == +0.0` is true but floating point operations can
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+ /// carry the sign bit through arithmetic operations. This means `-1.0 * 0.0` produces -0.0 and
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+ /// a negative number rounded to a value smaller than a float can represent also produces -0. 0.
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/// - [∞](#associatedconstant.INFINITY) and
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/// [−∞](#associatedconstant.NEG_INFINITY): these result from calculations
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/// like `1.0 / 0.0`.
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