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Motion P1788.1/M002.01: Required operations - YES



I vote YES for the motion P1788.1/M002.01 .

  -Dima

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From: Nathalie.Revol@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:59:33 AM GMT +03:00 Iraq
Subject: Re: discussion period begins for Motion P1788.1/M002.01: Required operations

Dear Colleagues

voting period for motion M002.01: “Required operations” begins.
Voting will continue until after Tuesday, November 24, 2015.

Best regards
	Nathalie

> On 12 Oct 2015, at 16:30, Nathalie Revol <Nathalie.Revol@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> as Dmitry has moved this motion and Evgenija has seconded it,
> (thank you to both of them), this is Motion P1788.1/M002.01:
> the discussion period now begins and will end November 2nd.
> 
> Best regards
> 	Nathalie
> 
>> On 12 Oct 2015, at 16:17, Evgenija Popova <epopova@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> I second the motion "Required Operations".
>> 
>> Evgenija Popova
>> 
>> Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
>> Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
>> 
>>> P-1788:
>>> 
>>> Does someone second this motion?
>>> 
>>> Baker (acting as chair)
>>> 
>>> On 10/12/2015 07:02 AM, Dmitry Nadezhin wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Motion "Required Operations".
>>>> 
>>>> Operations required in all flavors of the standard IEEE 1788-2015
>>>> are required also in the simplified standard P1788.1 .
>>>> 
>>>> Specifically, 4 operations missed in the initial draft are required
>> in P1788.1:
>>>> - arithmetic operations
>>>> roundTiesToEven(x)
>>>> roundTiesToAway(x)
>>>> - cancellative addition and subtraction
>>>> cancelPlus(x,y)
>>>> cancelMinus(x,y) .
>>>> 
>>>> -----------------
>>>> 
>>>> Rationale.
>>>> 
>>>> This (together with better conformance of interval literals) permits
>>>> more formal relation between IEEE 1788-2015 and P1788.1 .
>>>> It makes P1788.1 become a flavor of IEEE 1788-2015
>>>> though text of P1788.1 doesn't need to mention flavors.
>>>> If P1788.1 satisfies requirements of IEEE 1788-2015 flavor without
>> any exemptions
>>>> it starts a good tradition of adding new flavors to IEEE 1788-2015.
>>>> 
>>>> The specification of roundTiesToXXX(x) and specification
>> cancellative operations
>>>> doesn't add too much text to the P1788.1 .
>>>> 
>>>> There are simple implementations of these functions.
>>>> 
>>>> A possible implementation of roundTiesToXXX(x) operations can be
>> found here:
>>>> 
>> https://java.net/projects/jinterval/sources/svn/content/trunk/jinterval/p1788-launcher-java/src/main/resources/net/java/jinterval/p1788/integerFuns.c?rev=379
>> .
>>>> And Michel Hack wrote how to do it simpler:
>>>> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1788/email/msg08423.html .
>>>> 
>>>> There are subtleties in implementation of cancellative operations
>>>> when the answer is nearly a one-point interval (or nearly undefined).
>>>> See notes in subsection 12.12.5 of IEEE 1788-2015.
>>>> Nevertheless, Marco Nehmeier suggested a solution:
>>>> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1788/email/msg07858.html .
>>>> 
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>>>> 
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  Nathalie Revol                                                  INRIA Grenoble - Rhone Alpes
  LIP - projet AriC                                                tel: (33) 4 72 72 84 36
  Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon            fax: (33) 4 72 72 80 80
  69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France                     Nathalie.Revol@xxxxxxxxxxx
                               http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/nathalie.revol/

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