<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;">The N3191 DIS ballot comments include<div><br></div><div><table class="MsoTableGrid" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="654" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; width: 490.25pt; border-collapse: collapse; border: medium;"><tbody><tr><td width="53" valign="top" style="width: 40.05pt; border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">**-</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red;">033</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="51" valign="top" style="width: 37.95pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p></td><td width="64" valign="top" style="width: 48.2pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">3.10<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="74" valign="top" style="width: 55.75pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p></td><td width="63" valign="top" style="width: 47.3pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ed<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="132" valign="top" style="width: 99pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(167, 167, 167);">Note 1 to entry</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="108" valign="top" style="width: 80.9pt; border-width: 1pt 1pt 1pt medium; border-style: solid solid solid none; border-color: windowtext windowtext windowtext currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 0in 5.4pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The meaning of this note to entry is unclear. What<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">is the intended usage exactly? It seems contradictory to state that "correctly rounded" should not be followed by "result".<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div>The subclause in question is:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div><b>3.10</b></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div>1 <b>correctly rounded result</b></div></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div>representation in the result format that is nearest in value, subject to the current rounding mode, to what the result would be given unlimited range and precision</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>2 <b>Note 1 to entry</b>: In this document, when the words "correctly rounded" are not immediately followed by "result", this is the intended usage.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>3 <b>Note 2 to entry</b>: IEC 60559 or implementation-defined rules apply for extreme magnitude results if the result format contains infinity.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>In email [SC22WG14.24404], Joseph Myers writes:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>**-033: Disagree. I don't think the wording is confusing - but maybe there should be an attempt to rephrase so that "correctly rounded"</div></div><div><div>rather than "correctly rounded result" is the defined term (in which case CFP should advise on what the wording should be).</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I suggest changing Note 1 to:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>2 <b>Note 1 to entry</b>: In this document, the words "correctly rounded” may apply to an operation that produces a correctly rounded result or to input for such an operation.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><br><div>- Jim Thomas</div></body></html>