[Cfp-interest] WG14 IEEE 754-C binding meeting minutes 2016/06/28

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:53:51 -0500 Rajan Bhakta wrote:
>
>        Fred: Due to DFP encodings, the leftmost digit is not always the 
>most significant digit.
>...
>        Fred will look at 754 and bring this up again if there is a 
>problem.

In looking at 754,  I do not find anyplace that indicates the significant digits ignore leading zeros.

I think

2.1.51 significand: ... A decimal or subnormal binary significand can also contain leading zeros.

would be clearer if it were changed to:

2.1.51 significand: ... A decimal or subnormal binary significand can also contain leading zeros,
which are not significant.


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