[Cfp-interest 2217] Re: quantum

[Mike Cowlishaw]

Vincent wrote:
 
> Yes, the different definitions of ulp.
> 
> > - and thus ulp depends on the format;
> 
> but ditto with the quantum (which also depends on the representation).

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'representation' here.  The quantum of a
floating-point number only depends on its radix and exponent, not on how it
is depicted.

That is,

  2.50

and

  250E-2

have the same quantum.

Mike