[Cfp-interest 2214] Re: quantum

[Mike Cowlishaw]

> On 2021-10-06 15:01:00 +0100, Mike Cowlishaw wrote:
> > There was some problem with the term 'ulp' so 754 stopped 
> > using it (I 
> > think it was because the size of a ulp can change suddenly when 
> > normalizing? I forget ...).
> 
> There are different definitions, where ulp differs on the 
> power of the radix. Could this be the reason, in order to 
> avoid confusion?

Quite possibly.

It is worth asking on the 754 list ... although it's not very active in
terms of posts, when I posted info about the errata more than 45 people
looked at the errata page.