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The contiguous number fast path uses a Clinger-style exact algorithm (significand * 10^scale in double arithmetic), which is only correctly rounded when double operations are evaluated in true 53-bit precision. On the x87 FPU used by 32-bit x86 (FLT_EVAL_METHOD == 2) the single multiply/divide is computed in 80-bit and then double-rounded to double, so a small fraction of values land 1 ULP off. This surfaced as test-cbor_cpp11 and test-msgpack_cpp11 failing on the mingw (x86) job for regression/floats.json: the C++17 builds pass because they take the correctly-rounded std::from_chars path, while C++11 falls back to parse_float_fast(). A 5M-sample check over shortest round-trip decimals reproduces it: 0 divergences with 53-bit doubles, ~1 in 25 000 with 80-bit intermediates; declining to std::strtod fixes all of them. Guard parse_float_fast() on FLT_EVAL_METHOD so it declines whenever the platform evaluates doubles in extended precision, letting the caller use the correctly-rounded std::from_chars / std::strtod path instead. On mainstream x86-64/ARM64 (FLT_EVAL_METHOD == 0) the fast path is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AXcDtEma2PjxgmPS9cQGzA Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>