RE: Edge case conversions, exceptions to IEEE FPA
Agreed, this is one of the things (like modal intervals) not to be
included in the standard but rather to be kept in the back of our mind
so as the standard does not prevent us from implementing these
additional features (and if possible help in implementing them).
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Baker Kearfott
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Subject: Re: Edge case conversions, exceptions to IEEE FPA
Vladik et al,
I perceive that as something that would be completely new and would
entail a lot more work than what we have been discussing so far.
In particular, binary and decimal arithmetic, with directed roundings,
are already codified in IEEE 754-2008, and, except for possibly some
of the edge cases we have been discussing, the 754-2008 specifications
(including specifications of the directed rounding modes) can be used
directly in our interval standard.
Baker
Kreinovich, Vladik wrote:
> Probably not for this standard, but how about adding arbitrary
rational
> numbers to the standard? There have been some programming environments
> where we could manipulate exact rational numbers like 1/3, and they
> often occur as coefficients.
>
> Of course, we can always treat them as 1.0 /3.0 with exactly
represented
> 1 and 3.
>
>
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