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Issue is in Resources/KernelVsFE.md. From https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/216984/27662:
For example the Times issue you point out is not, in fact, always, semantically insignificant (for finite precision arithmetic). We actually have a fix for that in our internal prototype build and I'm optimistic it will make into our next major release. – Itai Seggev
IEEE floating point arithmetic is not associative. Here is a case where this behavior regroups parentheses:
(Notebook) In[1]:= FullForm[Hold[2*-+3]]
(Notebook) Out[1]//FullForm= Hold[Times[2,Times[-1,Plus[3]]]]
(Terminal) In[1]:= FullForm[Hold[2*-+3]]
(Terminal) Out[1]//FullForm= Hold[Times[2,-1,Plus[3]]]
But it's not clear to me how these could ever be different even if finite precision is used. Maybe there is a variation on this bug?
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