[Cfp-interest 1882] Re: 5.2.4.2.2 clarification

[Mike Cowlishaw]

I'd read that as the first use of 'characteristics' being general English,
but the second use 'characteristics provide information' sounds as though
they are functions in an API?
 
Mike


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From: Cfp-interest [mailto:cfp-interest-bounces at oakapple.net] On Behalf Of
Jim Thomas
Sent: 08 January 2021 03:49
To: CFP
Subject: [Cfp-interest 1880] 5.2.4.2.2 clarification


5.2.4.2.2 begins with:



[1] The characteristics of floating types are defined in terms of a model
that describes a representation of floating-point numbers and values that
provide information about an implementation's floating-point arithmetic.21)


Presumably "that" refers to "characteristics", which isn't clear from the
sentence structure. Here's a possible clarification:



[1] The characteristics of floating types are defined in terms of a model
that describes a representation of floating-point numbers and allows other
values. The characteristics provide information about an implementation's
floating-point arithmetic.21)


- Jim Thomas

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