Re: Motion 31: V04.2 Revision of proposed Level 1 text
Vincent Lefèvre replied to my comments on "round()":
> There's no default in 754, but 2 different functions:
> convertToIntegerTiesToEven and convertToIntegerTiesToAway.
Right -- I had forgotten the 754 required explicitly-rounding conversions.
The current rounding direction applies to arithmetic in general, and to
RoundToIntegralExact(), and there *is* a default rule for that.
> I wonder what "language's rule for default rounding" means.
Moot point, given the above. I was talking about implicit rounding.
Michel.
---Sent: 2012-01-27 14:51:05 UTC