[Cfp-interest 1557] Re: N2478 p 437

Tue Apr 14 20:37:57 PDT 2020

They’re for decimal floating-point arithmetic using binary encoding of significands. So “decimal” is correct.

- Jim Thomas

> On Apr 14, 2020, at 8:04 PM, Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:
> 
> C2X N2478 printed page 437 p22 has:
> 
> The encodebindN (7.12.16.3) and decodebindN (7.12.16.4) functions provide the encodeBinary and
> decodeBinary operations defined in IEC 60559 for decimal floating-point arithmetic.
> 
> I believe it should be for binary floating-point arithmetic.
> 
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