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

From: James A. Markevitch (jam@magic.com)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 06:50:04 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, Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com
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    Subject: Re: errata/140: Section 4.1.5: Definition of power operator result type
    Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 06:48:35 -0700 (PDT)

    > > How about some alternate wording:
    > > non-real case always truncates result toward 0
    >
    > But that is misleading for base = 1 or -1.
     
     Those cases have exact integer results, so the truncation rule is still
     accurate, but maybe misleading. How about
     
             non-real case truncates any fraction toward 0
     
     James Markevitch

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