<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">5.2.4.2.2 begins with:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class="">[1] The characteristics of floating types are defined in terms of a model that describes a representation of floating-point numbers and values that provide information about an implementation’s floating-point arithmetic.21)</blockquote><br class="">Presumably “that” refers to “characteristics”, which isn’t clear from the sentence structure. Here's a possible clarification:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class="">[1] The characteristics of floating types are defined in terms of a model that describes a representation of floating-point numbers and allows other values. The characteristics provide information about an implementation’s floating-point arithmetic.21)</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></blockquote>- Jim Thomas</body></html>