Golliver's Technique (cont'd) Scaling Prevents the double rounding. A technique that causes underflows properly on FPU registers. Scaling down Multiplies one of the operands by a scale. Scaling up Multiplies the result by the reciprocal number of the scale. (or divides the result by the scale.) Scale For double-precision operation: 2 ** -16382-(-1022) For single-precision operation: 2 ** -16382-(-126) Multiplication and division need this technique. Double rounding can only occur for mult. and div.