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Re: P1788/M0014.01: NO



On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:59 AM, John Pryce <j.d.pryce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All
>
> Now that two people have objected to the sentence "The empty set may be represented by (NaN, NaN)", I feel I should say I am perfectly happy to remove it if many people favour that.
>
> However, as I wrote to Dominique,
>> But that's only in a Note, so it's not normative. And it even says "may be represented", not "is represented".

that is more reason to remove it.

> Aren't you being a bit strict?

I would suggest we don't put statements in the standard we know are
controversial, even
if it is just a "note".  You would be surprised by what people gather
from "notes" :-)

-- Gaby