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To expand of that: the whole idea is that normalization is not applied after every step.

This approach is efficient when you know you have to add a bunch of numbers together. You add them up, and then normalize.

The example can be, e.g. doing long multiplication, or adding all numbers in a list.

(Just repeating what was said in the parent comment for emphasis)



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