Re: Motion 31: V04.2 Revision of proposed Level 1 text
On 2012-01-25 12:00:38 +0000, John Pryce wrote:
> I send herewith a revised draft of the proposed Level 1 text, less
> decorations, that I originally circulated on 5 Dec 2011.
About the basic arithmetic operations:
* "fused multiply-add" could just be called "multiply-add" because
at Level 1, there is no rounding.
* Similarly, "exact dot product" should just be called "dot product".
But why is the dot product included in the basic arithmetic operations?
I don't see it as important as +, -, *, /. And not more important than
recip, sqr, case, pown, abs, and perhaps some other operations.
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