P1788/0019.01 and Re: Basenote drift to the value of mid-rad forms...
P-1788:
I remind people that Motion 19 is currently still in its
official voting period, and will remain so until the voting period
ends or it is withdrawn. People may use the recent exchanges on this subject
to help them decide how to vote. Along these lines, you may wish to
consider all of the thread, in which more than one side is presented.
Sincerely,
Baker
On 9/13/2010 17:41, Nate Hayes wrote:
Dan Zuras wrote:
A possible motion text could be:
The standard should not support a midrad interval format or
nonstandard intervals, beyond providing conversion support,
approximately to the extent specified in the Vienna Proposal.
Shall I make that motion for you?
May I make it "shall not support"?
Should or should not has no meaning, really.
Dan,
Such a motion should also propse that P1788 shall change its title to something likewise more appropriate, such as "IEEE 1788 Standard for Classical Inf-Sup Arithmetic" or the like.
For example, the first IEEE 754, which did not include decimal arithmetic, was careful to identify itself as a standard for BINARY floating-point arithmetic.
Nate Hayes
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