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Fused Multiply–Add

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Jaume Sabater
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Jaume Sabater
CTO and systems engineer

Fused Multiply–Add (FMA) is a floating-point operation that performs multiplication and addition in a single step, which can improve performance and reduce rounding errors in numerical computations. It is particularly useful in high-performance computing applications, such as scientific simulations and machine learning.

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