What is Floating-point absorption?
Loss of the smaller operand's low-order digits when adding numbers of very different magnitude, because they do not fit in the significand. It matters when summing many small values.
Field: Computer Arithmetic
Related terms
Arithmetic shift bfloat16 Booth's algorithm Carry-lookahead adder Carry-save adder Catastrophic cancellation Exponent field Fixed point FP8 Fused multiply-add