[Cfp-interest 1604] Re: TS3 annex review

[Damian McGuckin]

On Mon, 1 Jun 2020, Fred J. Tydeman wrote:

> Page 8, line 3, 20:  Is that absolute value symbol or ceiling symbol?

Ceiling.  It is rendered extremely poorly.

> Page 8, line 8:  Is that absolute value symbol or floor symbol?

Floor. Ditto.

> Page 8, line 20:  Is emin-1 supposed to be the exponent of 2?

Yes. See the Word document.

> Since log(a**b) is b*log(a), it might be clearer to use: 
> ceiling((emin-1)*log10(2)))

Yes. But inconsistent.

The 10 should be a subscript. It certainly is a subscript in the Word 
document.

Whoever created the PDF has an awful PDF driver in there for the PDF.

> Page 8, line 32, 36:  Is emax supposed to be an exponent?  Is -p supposed
> to be an exponent?

Yes + Yes. Same comment about the PDF creation.
>
> Page 8, line 43:  Is 1-p supposed to be an exponent?
> Also, add "normalized" between "least" and "value".
>
> Page 8: Need to add after FLT*MAX, a new section: FLT*_NORM_MAX (to be
> consistent with C2X).
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> Page 9: line 1: Is emin-1 supposed to be an exponent?
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> Page 9: line 7: Is emin-p supposed to be an exponent?
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> Page 12, line 14:  Would it be better to replace (in C2X) "_Decimal32,
> _Decimal64,  _Decimal128" with "_DecimalN, where N is multiple of 32".
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> Page 18, line 3:  Should "M<=N" be "M<N"?
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> Page 29, line 42: Should *exp be a superscript?
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> Page 29, line 44: Should exp be a superscript?
>
> Several places:  "applys" should be "applies".
>
> Page 32, line 32:  "delare" should be "declare".
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Regards - Damian

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