[cfp-interest 3480] Re: Range error conditions for atan2 and atan2pi
Damian McGuckin
damianm at esi.com.au
Wed May 28 19:33:06 PDT 2025
On Thu, 29 May 2025, Damian McGuckin wrote:
> 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.
Not quite in the *pi() trigonometric routines. Silly me.
Need to think about this a bit more.
Apologies for the noise - Damian
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