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It's not that they are considered even, they just are. There's no way to encode a large odd even-radix floating point number. You have some (small, compared to
by pxx 3y ago
It's not that they are considered even, they just are. There's no way to encode a large odd
even-radix floating point number. You have some (small, compared to the range that the exponent can encode) bits of significand and once you exhaust those all numbers are even (or divisible by ten in the rare decimal case).
- layer8 3y agoIEC 60559 could have defined pow(-1, ∞) as -1 if they’d wanted to. Hence my question what the “thus” is about.