[cfp-interest 3552] Tiniest Positive Non-Zero floating number number
Damian McGuckin
damianm at esi.com.au
Sun Jul 20 16:00:32 PDT 2025
This is a question of nomenclature and maybe programming style and has
nothing to do with the standard but everything to do with experience.
The abbreviation of the above type f number could be
TPNZ
Then again, in our search for 3-letter acronyms and the ease with which
humans remember these, it could also be
SPF - Smallest Positive Finite
or
SPD - Smallest Positve Denormal
or
TPF - Tiniest Positive Finite
or
TFP - Tiniest Finite Positive
Which of these is both most precise and easiest on the eye and brain.
I have excluded "tiniest positive denormal" as a tautology because a
floating point number exhibiting IEEE 754 "tininess" is a denormal.
Thanks - Damian
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