From: terje.mathisen@nospicedham.tmsw.no   
      
   Robert Prins wrote:   
   > On 2017-08-04 17:33, Terje Mathisen wrote:   
   >> I'm on the ieee754 team which is updating the floating point   
   >> standard for 2018, I know a bit about computer arithmetic and   
   >> encodings. :-)   
   >   
   > That's what's always puzzling me, how or why do you update a   
   > standard? What has changed in floating pint formats? Puzzled!   
      
   If you believe any standard to be perfect, then I've got a bridge in   
   Brooklyn to sell you. :-)   
      
   We are simply fixing errors and omission, i.e. getting rid of the   
   current definition of max(a,b) and min(a,b) which breaks down badly in   
   the face of qNaN/sNaNs in an array reduction.   
      
      
   Terje   
      
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