Re: Motion P1788/M0009.01_ExactDotProduct

[Ralph Baker Kearfott <rbk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arnold,

Again, for what it's worth:
An IEEE standard need not be entirely in hardware or entirely in
software.  That is, a standard-conforming implementation might
be partially in hardware and partially in software.  Thus, a
SYSTEM can claim to be standard-conforming, when part of the standard
is in hardware and part is in software.  To my knowledge, 754 implementations
have followed this pattern.  (Dan might have something to say on this.)

Baker

Arnold Neumaier wrote:
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> One also needs to take into account that if some hardware wants to claim 
> conformance to the standard, it would have to implement all of the 
> standard.
>
> Thus; Would the requirement of an exact dot product be likely to delay 
> hardware support for all of interval arithmetic?
>
>
> Arnold Neumaier


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