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		bonzini on May 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The radix 2^51 trick (2017) Why would you ever worry about overflow of the leading chunk (aka limb)?

dgoldstein0 on May 30, 2020 [–]

Because you want to know when your result is inaccurate?

bonzini on May 30, 2020 | [–]

But you're operating modulo 2^256.

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