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  "path": "/t/infinite-precision-intermediate-arithmetic-how-much-would-break/24383?page=2#post_22",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-10T07:11:48.000Z",
  "site": "https://internals.rust-lang.org",
  "textContent": "josh:\n\n> We have `algebraic` arithmetic methods on floats. We could have them on integers.\n\nThis is not the same thing. Algebraic methods on floats allows the implementation to return a number of possible values, depending on how the operations are rearranged. This proposal would make the final result a single value on all supported platforms.\n\n(It would allow algebraic optimizations on the infinite-precision intermediate operations, but _not_ such optimizations on floating point operations)",
  "title": "Infinite precision intermediate arithmetic: how much would break?"
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