names for numbers

["Ferguson, Warren E" <warren.e.ferguson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Based on our discussions at the last style review, it seems that floating-point numbers should be partitioned along 2 dimensions.

 

It must have been Dan’s subconscious causing him (correctly) to use “finite nonzero” in a few places.

 

Floating-point Data:

 

Floating-point Numbers:

 

	FINITE	INFINITE
ZERO	a.k.a. zero there are only 2 such: +0 and -0	no such beasties
NONZERO	finite nonzero	a.k.a. infinite there are only 2 such: +inf and –inf

 

Floating-point Not-a-Numbers:

 

Quiet NaNs

Signaling NaNs

 

Would it be appropriate to put such tables near Table 1 in Section 5?

 

Warren