Ignoring exceptions from IEEE 754
floating-point arithmetic operations
The system invents a plausible result for the operation and
returns that result. For example, the square root of a negative
number can produce a NaN, and trying to compute a value too big
to fit in the format can produce infinity. If an exception occurs
and is ignored, a flag is set in the floating-point status word
to tell you that something went wrong at some time in the past.
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