Exactness of Multiplication Errors #
In the unbounded-exponent FLX format, the residual of a rounded product of two representable operands is itself representable. The rounding mode may be any valid monotone integer rounding.
Multiplication by a radix power preserves FLX representability.
A nonzero rounded-product residual has a representation at the sum of the operand canonical exponents. This is the exponent-carrying form needed by FLT underflow proofs.
The residual of a valid rounded FLX product is exactly FLX-representable.
Every FLT value is representable in the corresponding unbounded FLX format.
The residual of an FLT rounded product is FLT-representable when the exact product is above the
underflow threshold β^(emin + 2*prec - 1).
FLT multiplication by a radix power is exact when the shift stays above emin.
Nonnegative radix shifts preserve every FLT-representable value.