[Cfp-interest 2213] Re: quantum

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Wed Oct 6 07:03:59 PDT 2021


On 2021-10-06 15:01:00 +0100, Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
> There was some problem with the term 'ulp' so 754 stopped using it
> (I think it was because the size of a ulp can change suddenly when
> normalizing? I forget ...).

There are different definitions, where ulp differs on the power of
the radix. Could this be the reason, in order to avoid confusion?

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