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Doesn't sound unlikely.

LHC@Home had big issues[1] with AMD and Intel machines giving very different results to the same work unit. They traced it down to the exp() function behaving different, and ended up using a library[2] for anything more fancy than basic arithmetic.

[1] https://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/sites/default/files/OPENshort....

[2]: https://github.com/SixTrack/crlibm




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