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Suggested new terminology
Greetings.
Over the course of its deliberations, to describe a concept introduced
to the standard by decimal arithmetic the committee added a definition
to the existing term cohort:
"cohort: The set of all floating-point representations that represent a
given floating-point number in a
given floating-point format."
However, there is no term to refer to the members of a cohort other than
"members of a cohort," a phrase used several times in the standard. I
came across a succinct word I think we should use for to refer to a
cohort member:
coeval (ko-EE-vuhl)
adjective: Having the same age or duration.
noun: A contemporary.
-Joe