Re: errata/140: Section 4.1.5: Definition of power operator result type

From: James A. Markevitch (jam@magic.com)
Date: Sun May 25 2003 - 15:10:12 PDT

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    The following reply was made to PR errata/140; it has been noted by GNATS.

    From: "James A. Markevitch" <jam@magic.com>
    To: etf-bugs@boyd.com, kurt@wsfdb.wsfdb.com
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    Subject: Re: errata/140: Section 4.1.5: Definition of power operator result type
    Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 15:02:10 -0700 (PDT)

    > 2**-3'sb1 0 non-real case and less than one reciprocal truncates to zero
    >
    > (I am not totally happy with this wording ^^^^^^ )
    >
    > to clearly show that the 0.5(s) are not rounded up.
     
     How about some alternate wording:
             non-real case always truncates result toward 0
     
     James Markevitch

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