Re: Flexible Floating-Point Standard Proposal (was: Decimal ... JOSS)

From: David W. Cantrell (DWCantrell_at_sigmaxi.org)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: 16 Mar 2005 22:52:53 GMT

jsavard@ecn.ab.ca (John Savard) wrote:
[snip]
> Some items, such as affine infinity, were dropped from IEEE 754 - they
> were implemented on the 8087, but not on its successors, therefore.

FWIW:
I think you meant to say that the projective infinity was dropped. The
affine infinities were retained in IEEE 754.

David