<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;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brian Kennedy <BrianK@TargetedConvergence.Com><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Re: [IEEE-754 2029] Agenda meeting 10 February 2025</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">February 9, 2025 at 10:59:03 AM MST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Massimiliano Fasi <massimiliano.fasi@gmail.com><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stds-754@ieee.org<br></span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 9, 2025, at 3:48 AM, <a href="mailto:massimiliano.fasi@gmail.com">massimiliano.fasi@gmail.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><b id="docs-internal-guid-5aa043a1-7fff-7bbd-0e6c-b1e0fe99cf52" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-5aa043a1-7fff-7bbd-0e6c-b1e0fe99cf52" style="font-weight: normal;"><h3 dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 16pt; margin-bottom: 4pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d837e509-7fff-6a93-fa82-9fd5e2dd6f7a" style="font-weight: normal;"><ol style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[16:15 UTC] Motion that the following definitions in Clause 2.1:</span></p></li></ol></span></h3></b></b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>In addition to that motion, I was also hoping to make the motion for two related additions to 2.1 that make sense to discuss and approve together:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Add a definition of term “floating-point format” to section 2.1 as follows:<br>floating-point format: A set of floating-point representations and their encoding (where the encoding may be unspecified).</div><div><br></div><div>I think Vincent indicated he would second that.<br><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>Move the definition of “encoding” from section 3.2 to section 2.1 as follows:</div><div>encoding: An encoding maps a representation of a floating-point datum to a bit string. An encoding might map some representations of floating-point data to more than one bit string.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mantas said he would second that move. As for the issue he raised regarding uses of “encoding” to mean “bit string”, I would recommend changing those uses from “encoding” to “bit string” rather than modifying this definition of “encoding” to mean both.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><hr><p> To unsubscribe from the STDS-754 list, click the following link: https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=STDS-754&A=1 </p>
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