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Re: names for numbers



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

                             FINITE                     INFINITE 
                ZERO         a.k.a. zero              no such beasties
                             there are 2 such: 
                             +0 and -0

                NONZERO      a.k.a. finite nonzero     a.k.a. infinity
                                                       there are 2 ... 

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

If anything these should be definitions in section 3 -- but really the 
only possible confusion of the four above is whether 'non-zero' includes 
the infinities.  These can be made explicit by just ensuring that 
'non-zero' is qualified whenever the term is used (I believe Steve was 
going to do a pass through the draft to check for those.)

mfc

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