Re: Motion P1788/M0050:EDP-Without-CA: voting period begins

[Rudnei Cunha <rudnei.cunha@xxxxxxxxx>]

I vote NO for the same reasons outlined by Vincent Lefevre and Richard Fateman.

Rudnei

2013/9/15 Corliss, George <george.corliss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I agree.  NO.

George Corliss


On Sep 15, 2013, at 12:02 PM, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>

 wrote:

> I vote NO on Motion P1788/M0050:EDP-Without-CA.
>
> Same reason as what Richard Fateman said.
>
> I also disagree on requiring a complex operation such as EDP while
> simpler exact operations such as an exact sum or an exact product
> of two numbers aren't even mentioned. Something like that is seen
> nowhere in other standards. EDP and other exact operations have
> their place only in their own standard.
>
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