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On Sept. 4 we got the folloqwing mail:

| Voting on Motion 47 to amend Motion 45 ended with 3 Sept., 2013.
| Tally: Yes - 6; No - 30; Needed for quorum - 32.
| The motion FAILS.

I am a bit surprised about this result. On Sept. 2 we got the following mail:

| Voting on Motion 47 - Motion to amend Motion 45, closes TOMORROW, Tuesday, 3 September.
| Current tally: Yes - 7; No - 18; Needed for quorum - 32

After that we got 4 No votes and one withdrawal giving a total of 28 votes.

Anyhow without the YES votes the motion did not have reach the quorum.

The comments coming with the No votes on motion 47 (see, for instance, Svetoslav Markov's mail of Aug. 27 which is copied below) suggest that another formulation of the motion would lead to another result. So let me try another motion:

IEEE P1788 requires an EDP. Providing it via CA is recommended. (For CA see the attachment).

With best regards
Ulrich


ON Aug. 27 Swetoslav Markov wrote:

My vote on Motion 47 is NO.

  I have changed my mind on Motion 45 on the base of the
 last  discussions. In particular,

I agree with Michel Hack  :

"I would vote YES if P1788 included a complete standard for
Complete Arithmetic, ..."
and I agree with Ian McIntosh :

" I support having EDP but not mandatorily implemented via CA ...."
IMO the CA as formulated by Motion 45 is too much hardware
oriented.   Exact Dot Product  should be required  in P1788 but
not mandatory based on CA. I  think that dot product is as fundamental
operation as are addition and multiplication.

S Markov




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