floating-point overflow
Floating-point overflow occurs when a computer attempts to store a number that exceeds the limit of what can be represented by the floating-point format, resulting in an error or an approximation instead of an exact value.
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- bitwise overflow
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- floating-point arithmetic
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- integer overflow
- integer overflows
- multiplicative overflow
- numeric overflow
- precision loss due to overflow
- quotient overflow
- signed integer overflow
- unsigned arithmetic overflow
- unsigned integer overflow
- variable overflow