Re: Fwd: Decimal Floating-Point Formats

[David G Hough 754R work <754r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I believe the subcommittee considered this matter, and determined that 
>these values of e should nonetheless be considered as valid, and that, 
>therefore the present note 1 should be deleted.

Yes, this was subsumed in the general discussion of whether we would have
undefined configurations or not.    As a general principle we agreed we would
not.   So we had to bend a bit on the balance of extreme exponents in order
to have defined values for all bit patterns.