[cfp-interest 3479] Re: Range error conditions for atan2 and atan2pi

Damian McGuckin damianm at esi.com.au
Wed May 28 19:29:04 PDT 2025


On Wed, 28 May 2025, Damian McGuckin wrote:

>>  ... occurs if both x is positive and also nonzero y/x is too close to zero

Given that 5.3.5.3.3 defines a subnormal number indepedent of ISO 60559 
support, should we say

 	... and also y/x is subnormal.

The concept of "nonzero BLOB is too close to zero" only exists in Section 7
18 times for the trigonometric, exponent and logarithmic routines.

Everywhere else, it is called "subnormal" and used 50+ times.

Thanks - Damian


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