[ANSI-Smalltalk] Agenda items...
Paolo Bonzini
paolo.bonzini at lu.unisi.ch
Mon Dec 3 16:56:26 GMT 2007
> Hmmm... well, but even then, we have that the integer 2^emax is a
> double, but 2^(emax + 1) is not a double. Is perhaps the convenience of
> coincidence the confusing part here? I didn't mean to write such
> amounts in any particular mantissa notation.
Yes, most likely. I interpreted 2^emax as "1*2^emax" which is not LIA
because the mantissa is 1.
Paolo
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