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|    Terje Mathisen to Thomas Koenig    |
|    Re: Why no roundTiesToOdd in IEEE?    |
|    10 Nov 25 08:38:57    |
      From: terje.mathisen@tmsw.no              Thomas Koenig wrote:       > There is a clear use case for roundTiesToOdd (correctly rounding       > calculations for later conversion to a lower precision), this is       > why Power implements it for its 128-bit HW.       >       > Why didn't make this into IEEE 754-2019? Will it (likely) be       > in a future revision?       >       > Terje, maybe you can shed some light on this.              The WG discussions are private, but I can confirm that rounding modes       are on the table.              Terje              --       - |
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