<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Regarding action item<div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> Jim: Part 4: Add a footnote anchored on something that says "For an example of emulating augmented arithmetic, see <paper on augmented arithmetic emulation from CFP2949>" and add it to the bibliography in part 4.<o:p></o:p></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I suggest adding a footnote in Clause 7 to the sentence: </div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>The functions in this clause round to nearest with ties toward zero, a rounding direction specified by IEC 60559 for use by augmented arithmetic operations.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>where the footnote is:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>[16] shows how to use currently available IEC 60559 operations and to-nearest, ties-to-even rounding to implement the IEC 60559 augmented arithmetic operations with their special to-nearest, ties-toward-zero rounding.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>and adding the Bibliography entry:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>[16]<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Boldo, S., Lauter, C., Muller, J.-M., Emulating round-to-nearest-ties-to-zero “augmented” floating-point operations using round-to-nearest-ties-to-even arithmetic. <i>IEEE Transactions on Computers</i>, 2021, 70 (7), pp.1046 - 1058. Available at: <a href="https://hal.science/hal-02137968v4">https://hal.science/hal-02137968v4</a>.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Please send any comments to CFP ASAP.</div><div><br></div><div>- Jim Thomas</div></body></html>