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Re: [IEEE 1788]: Post-ballot comment



On 2015-02-12 14:42:28 +0100, Marco Nehmeier wrote:
> In my opinion the "right" one is 10.5.5
> because it matches the definition of Reverse mode operations in 10.5.4
> Hence 12.12.3 should be corrected.

Yes, this is also what was in Motion 43.

> And to be a nitpicker (and this point is unimportant):
> 
> The correct definition in 10.5.5 should be
> 
>     cc /set bb = {x in R | b in bb exists such that x * b in cc}
> 
> and not
> 
>     cc /set bb = {x in R | b in bb exists such that b * x in cc}
> 
> to match the definitions of Rev1 and Rev2 in 10.5.4

This change would make it to match Rev1. It currently matches Rev2.
But in this case, b should be renamed to a in Table 10.1 and in 10.5.5
to also match the variable names (and in page 34 line 1, a should also
be renamed to something else).

> But of course this is only notation...
> Mathematically it is the same...

Yes.

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