[Cfp-interest 2928] Re: updates for TS-4r and TS-5r, post WG14 meeting

[Jim Thomas]

> On Oct 19, 2023, at 7:48 PM, Damian McGuckin <damianm at esi.com.au> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2023, Jim Thomas wrote:
> 
>> https://wiki.edg.com/pub/CFP/WebHome/cfp4r-20231019.pdf
> 
> I need to check exactly. but:
> 
> Line 30 of Page 6 in TS-4r in Section 6.4 says
> 
> 	The reduc_sumprod functions compute the dot product of the
> 	sequences of elements of the arrays p and q:
> 
> I am not sure that those words are concise enough. One member of WG14 raised a question about this, although I am not sure his/her definition
> was concise either.

Hmm. Not many words there.

Was the WG14 member’s comment captured?
 
> 
> Maybe:
> 
> 	The reduc_sumprod functions computes the dot product of the arrays
> 	p and q, i.e. the sum of the scalrs roducts of each corresponding
> 	pair of elements of each of the arrays (or sequences) p and q.

The TS-4r spec gives the formula, which makes it clear what is to be computed. What would be the purpose of saying more?

- Jim Thomas

> 
> I am not totally happy with my words, not least because it is nearly
> double the number of original words.
> 
> Maybe I will sleep on it.
> 
> - Damian
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