[Cfp-interest 2211] Re: quantum

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2021-10-06 14:40:47 +0200, Paul Zimmermann wrote:
> someone who reads that definition will wonder what is the difference with an
> ulp. It would be nice to have a document and/or web page describing the
> difference between quantum and ulp (if any) on some well-chosen examples.

Perhaps ulp is a function over the real numbers (possibly excluding 0),
while quantum is a function over the floating-point representations?

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