Re: Empty interval representations (general)
On 2010-05-05 10:12:56 -0500, R. Baker Kearfott wrote:
> That's an interesting stance since, I think (correct me if
> I am wrong), that, except for "big-endian" and "small-endian",
> 754 does specify formats. Of course, an argument for
> not specifying is: "it does not matter what's inside
> if what is actually seen is as specified."
Actually, there's more than "big-endian" and "small-endian".
ARM FPA has a mixed-endian format for binary64 (little-endian
32-bit words stored as big endian). And any implementation is
free to store the bit string in any order it wishes.
For interval arithmetic, there can be more possibilities since
there are 2 numbers to store, unless we want to specify this.
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