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Subject: Re:  handling small numbers

Start with:
 David Goldberg
 What Every Computer scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
 ACM Computer Surveys V28n1(Mar 1991)pp5-48

Perhaps some Numerical Analysis might help?

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