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Subject: clarification of technical intent in N1553
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  N1553

    It was not clear to me whether the failure of N1553 to address
    point 4 of N1532 was intentional or accidental.  The
    replacement edits given in N1553 did not include anything to
    correspond to the [231:32] edit of N1532.  The edit in N1532
    would need to be reworded in order to accomodate the decisions
    made in N1532, but this rewording would not be difficult.  As
    is, point 4 of N1532 remains unaddressed; we specify that an
    input field with nothing after the NaN is a quiet NaN, but we
    don't specify that a quiet NaN produces this as an output.
    N1553 gives no reason for disagreeing with this point of
    N1532, so I am suspicious that the failure to address it was
    accidental.  If we do intent this asymmetry, I'd at least
    suggest a note pointing it out, because otherwise it will be
    confusing (and likely generate an interp request).

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