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From: John Reid <jkr@rl.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: (j3.2003-75) more on ATAN
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Michael,

> Bob Corbett's comment number 13
> 
> >13. editorial comment:  Section 13 should state that instances
> >    of the constant pi in the descriptions of intrinsic functions
> >    represent an approximation, not the true value of pi.  If the
> >    true value of pi were required, functions such as ATAN and
> >    ATAN2 would be forced to return improperly rounded results in
> >    some cases.
> 
> calls for an EDIT which I'd like to supply.  However, J3 did not agree
> that an edit was needed in this case.  ("I'd want to see specific examples
> of where this rounding problem occurs...")
> 
> Presumably WG5 might be interested in giving us a mandate to process all J3
> papers and not just those officially forwarded to INCITS, so I hope we'd
> not be wasting our time to continue to think about issues like this.

Certainly not. I see no hope of keeping to our schedule unless we
continue to delegate editorial changes to J3. Please prepare your
detailed edits ASAP. I, as an individual and not as Convener, have
already put it one such paper (03-109, with Rob James) and have started
another.

Best wishes,

John.