From: Samuel_Figueroa@NeXT.com (Samuel Figueroa)
Subject: Questions about floating point
Date: 1996/07/06
Date: 1996-07-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4rl891$e32@news.next.com> (raw)
I have a couple questions having to do with floating point. I am not a
regular reader of this newsgroup; please respond via e-mail.
1) I don't see any accuracy requirements for conversions of real literals
to floating-point types. Could someone please point me to the section of
the RM that talks about this?
2) The attribute Model_Epsilon (described in Appendix A) is supposed to
have the value Machine_Radix**(1-Model_Mantissa). Please forgive me, but
I just don't get it. (Could it be that I'm too tired?) What's so special
about this value? It seems to me that either
Machine_Radix**(-Model_Mantissa) or Machine_Radix**(-Model_Mantissa-1)
would be more special.
- Sam Figueroa (figueroa@cs.nyu.edu)
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