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In computer science, subnormal numbers are the subset of denormalized numbers that fill the underflow gap around zero in floating-point arithmetic. Any non-zero number with magnitude smaller than the smallest positive normal number is subnormal, while denormal can also refer to numbers outside that range. Read more on Wikipedia

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