from the value obtained by executing and rounding the instructions individually.
An explicit floating-point type <a href="#Conversions">conversion</a> rounds to
the precision of the target type, preventing fusion that would discard that rounding.
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For instance, some architectures provide a "fused multiply and add" (FMA) instruction

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from the value obtained by executing and rounding the instructions individually.
An explicit <a href="#Numeric_types">floating-point type</a> <a href="#Conversions">conversion</a> rounds to
the precision of the target type, preventing fusion that would discard that rounding.
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For instance, some architectures provide a "fused multiply and add" (FMA) instruction