[Cfp-interest] One digit character string

[Jim Thomas]

Starting the NOTE with

	IEC 60559 specifies that conversion to one-digit …

would be helpful for identifying the source of the specification and the non-C term “roundTiesToEven”.

- Jim Thomas

> On Feb 20, 2018, at 1:56 PM, Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:32:31 -0600 Rajan Bhakta wrote:
>> 
>>   Fred: Put the words for the roundTiesToEven with a change to Annex F 
>> as a part 1 DR as per his note on 2018/02/18 with the change of "which 
>> could produce" -> "whose nearest neighbors are".
> 
> Add the following to 18661-1 10.2 Conversions to character sequences:
> 
> Add to F.5 Binary-decimal conversion:
> 
> NOTE: Conversion to one-digit character strings using roundTiesToEven
> when both choices are odd shall produce the value with largest
> magnitude.  This can happen with 9.5 whose nearest neighbors are 9.e0
> and 1.e1, both of which are odd.
> 
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