[Cfp-interest 1820] Preferred quantum exponent for exact result
Fred J. Tydeman
tydeman at tybor.com
Sat Oct 24 09:32:58 PDT 2020
I believe that "exact" should be added before "result" in 5.2.4.2.3#7:
The following table shows, for each operation delivering a result in decimal floating-point format,
how the preferred quantum exponents of the operands, Q(x), Q(y), etc., determine the preferred
quantum exponent of the operation result.
IEEE-754 says that if the result is inexact, use the smallest exponent so as
to get the maximum precision (so that table does not apply).
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