Re: A proposal for the next motion
On 2009-05-13 10:03:05 +0100, John Pryce wrote:
> (2) An implementation shall be called 754-conforming if: (i) its
> underlying system is 754-conforming (Definition D3) and if the
> implementation supports intervals of each of the five basic 754 floating
^^^^
> point formats: binary32, binary64, binary128, decimal64, and decimal128;
> or (ii) it is functionally indistinguishable from case (i).
Do you really mean "each" here? In particular, I don't think that
supporting both binary *and* decimal is always useful in practice.
And I think that the IEEE 754 requirements concerning the formats
are sufficient, and 1788 shouldn't demand more than IEEE 754.
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