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DRAFT IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic – 2003 August 12 10:20
Change and Open Issues Log
13, August 2003
10 July 2003
Review of decimal draft changes. Wordsmithing. More discussion of formats
section. Changed exponent calculation of rounding to an integer in the same
format. No agreement on providing guidence for exponent calculations of decimal
math libraries. Minor changes accepted:
Definitions
declet, denormalized definitions, external decimal format, normal number
29,30 May 2003
Decimal format with scale preservation accepted, along with some concomitant
changes. More refinements to section 3. Added equivalent predicate to
recommended functions.
Open issues:
• preferred exponents are not defined for all decimal operations.
• canonical infinity needs to be agreed upon
• recommended functions need updates for decimal
18 April 2003
Refinements to section 3; reversed decimal signaling/quiet NaN encoding. Format
definitions added, max/min accepted, many small changes approved.
20 March 2003
No substantive changes.
in the formats section.
Some minor rewordings during draft review, especially
20 February 2003
Copyright © 2003 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. This document is an unapproved
draft of a proposed IEEE-SA Standard - USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. See statement on page 1.
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