April 29, 2011
4:39 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote: ..
I have said nothing about decimal. I can requote the relevant portions of the IEEE-754 standard again, if you like.
Please do. I had a draft of IEEE-754 standard somewhere at some point, but not anymore. I rely on Kahan's notes at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/ieee754.ps .