7 Apr
2013
7 Apr
'13
8:11 p.m.
On 8/04/2013, at 11:21 AM, Levent Erkok wrote:
It appears that the consensus is that this is a historical definition dating back to the times when IEEE754 itself wasn't quite clear on the topic itself, and "so nobody thought that hard about negative zeroes." (The quote is from a comment from Lennart.)
I would expect abs(f) to be identical to copysign(f, 1.0).