[Cfp-interest 2289] Re: AIs from WG 14 for CFP -- 5.2.4.2.2 clarification, double-double support

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 15:02:47 -0800 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>C23_proposal_-_5.2.4.2.2_cleanup-update-20211121.pdf <https://wiki.edg.com/pub/CFP/WebHome/C23_proposal_-_5.2.4.2.2_cleanup-update-20211121.pdf>

How about adding to:

[3a] Floating-point numbers x with f1 > 0 are called normalized
floating-point numbers.

Other models (such as double-double) have numbers that are normalized
only if f1 > 0 and all possible p digits and e exponents result in
values representable in the type.


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