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Re: -0 and +0



On 2013-04-25 08:51:52 -0500, Ralph Baker Kearfott wrote:
> On 04/25/2013 08:08 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >This is at Level 1 and Level 2. Representation (Level 3) is another
> >matter, where you can't ignore that a number format may have signed
> >zeros...
> 
> and we may possibly not specify that much at level 3.  Isn't
> level 3 still up in the air, anyway?

I don't think we are ready to specify Level 3. The biggest risk is
to do that wrong, without an implementation. Informative text could
be useful, though.

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