Underflow
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Underflow may refer to:
- Buffer underflow, in computer science, a condition in which an attempt is made to read an empty buffer
- Arithmetic underflowArithmetic underflowThe term arithmetic underflow is a condition in a computer program that can occur when the true result of afloating point operation is smaller in magnitude...
, in floating point arithmetic, a condition in which an intermediate result is strictly between zero and the smallest normalized number in the destination format