From owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Fri Aug 15 20:50:32 2003 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) id h7FIoWNv080111 for sc22wg5-domo; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:50:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk) X-Authentication-Warning: ptah.dkuug.dk: majordom set sender to owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk using -f Received: from brmea-mail-2.sun.com (brmea-mail-2.Sun.COM [192.18.98.43]) by dkuug.dk (8.12.8p1/8.9.2) with ESMTP id h7FIoMEc080106 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:50:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Keith.Bierman@Sun.COM) Received: from esunmail ([129.147.156.34]) by brmea-mail-2.sun.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7FIoMd6022249 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:50:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: from xpa-fe1 (esunmail [129.147.156.34]) by edgemail1.Central.Sun.COM (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HJO00DRVCBXAJ@edgemail1.Central.Sun.COM> for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:50:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: from sun.com ([129.150.17.226]) by mail.sun.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTPSA id <0HJO00D9RCBUSH@mail.sun.net> for sc22wg5@dkuug.dk; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 12:50:21 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:51:07 -0700 From: keith bierman Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.2943) clarification of technical intent in N1553 In-reply-to: <200308151832.h7FIWhHU080019@dkuug.dk> To: longb@cray.com Cc: Robert Corbett , sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Message-id: <3F3D2B9B.6070508@sun.com> Organization: SunMicrosystems Laboratories MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en, pdf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) References: <0HJM003FYWNQXJ@mpkmail.eng.sun.com> <200308151832.h7FIWhHU080019@dkuug.dk> Sender: owner-sc22wg5@dkuug.dk Precedence: bulk > One could argue that things that are not numbers do not have signs. Infinity is not a number. Signed Infinities have significance and great use in the IEEE model. Not all things which are "not numbers" are NaNs ;> -- Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| 650-352-4432 voice+fax Sun Microsystems Laboratories | sun internal 68207 15 Network Circle UMPK 15-224 | Menlo Park, California 94025 | kbierman@acm.org Copyright 2003