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Document underflow limitation in Randomizer::getFloat() #1192

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11 changes: 10 additions & 1 deletion reference/random/random/randomizer/getfloat.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<!-- EN-Revision: 423a1da63f8265c57827234807709232afd274ec Maintainer: sergey Status: ready -->
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<refentry xml:id="random-randomizer.getfloat" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<refnamediv>
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чтобы получить нужные поведенческие свойства.
</para>
</note>
<caution>
<para>
Потеря значимости (underflow) намеренно не обрабатывается в алгоритме γ-секции.
Это может привести к возврату некорректных значений для интервалов с
границами в субнормальном диапазоне чисел с плавающей точкой, то есть
для границ с абсолютным значением меньше приблизительно
<literal>2<superscript>-1020</superscript></literal> (около <literal>8.9e-308</literal>).
</para>
</caution>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 role="seealso">
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