<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://277/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ok, back to this issue. In email on 2/19/2013 I made an attempt at using the IEC 60559 terminology:<div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>… we might say in (Part 2) 12.3 something like:</div><div><div><br></div><div>"The types</div><div>…</div><div>represent values of decimal floating types in one of the two alternative encodings allowed for decimal formats by the IEC 60559 standard: the encoding based on decimal encoding of the significand or the encoding based on binary encoding of the significand, "</div><div><br></div><div>and in 12.4.2:</div><div><br></div><div>"The encodedpd functions convert the argument into the encoding based on decimal encoding of the significand. …"</div><div><br></div><div>and similarly for the other re-encoding functions</div><div><br></div><div>and add something about our use of the acronyms dpd and bid in type and function names, or else change the names.</div></div></blockquote></div><div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div><br></div></div><div>Mike and Marius, is this what you have in mind? We might change the function names to encodedecd32, encodebind32, etc. </div><div><br></div><div>-Jim </div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:45 AM, Mike Cowlishaw <<a href="mailto:mfc@speleotrove.com">mfc@speleotrove.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Jim & Marius,</font></div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">While I agree with Mike that it should be better to use the IEC 60559 terminology, the reality is that DPD and BID were easier to identify the two encodings and are spread widely in various publications.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">So unless Mike feels very strongly about avoiding DPD and BID I would leave them in, properly qualified as you suggested.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="994323709-20022013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I don't have an opinion on the use of BID (although it has some slang meanings in the UK, so I would avoid it). I do feel very strongly about the use of DPD to refer to the encoding as a whole, however. It was a useful abbreviation/jargon for committee use, but it does not do justice to the very neat encoding of the exponent, etc., devised by Dan Zuras and others. It's not even the case that the whole coefficient is encoded using DPD.</font></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </p><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="994323709-20022013"><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">I don't quite see the difficulty in using the IEC 60559 terminology (perhaps abbreviated). Anyone implementing or using this level of detail will surely have to be aware of that terminology anyway, and introducing a second way of saying the same thing is best avoided if possible.</font></font></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </p><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><span class="994323709-20022013"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Mike</font></span></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>