[Cfp-interest 2484] 5.2.4.2.3 and IEC 60559

Fred J. Tydeman tydeman at tybor.com
Mon Aug 1 20:46:01 PDT 2022


It appears to me that section 5.2.4.2.3 assumes that decimal floating point (DFP) is IEC 60559 DFP..
Yet, I do not see such a requirement in 5.2.4.2.3.

I do see in 6.2.5#12 that the formats are IEC 60559 DFP.

Should DEC*_EPSILON mention 'normalized'?


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