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diff --git a/manual/arith.texi b/manual/arith.texi index 23d3aaabdd..57b3ac9329 100644 --- a/manual/arith.texi +++ b/manual/arith.texi @@ -836,8 +836,8 @@ are NaN, one of the values is returned. @deftypefunx {long double} fmal (long double @var{x}, long double @var{y}, long double @var{z}) @cindex butterfly The name of the function @code{fma} means floating-point multiply-add. -I.e., the operation performed is @math{(@var{x} @mul{} @var{y}) + -@var{z}}. The speciality of this function is that the intermediate +I.e., the operation performed is @math{(@var{x} @mul{} @var{y}) + @var{z}}. +The speciality of this function is that the intermediate result is not rounded and the addition is performed with the full precision of the multiplcation. |