- From: Graham Klyne <GK@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 16:39:50 +0000
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 16:08 18/11/97 PST, Jeffrey Mogul wrote:
>Section 3.9 does say
>
> "Quality values" is a misnomer, since these values merely
> represent relative degradation in desired quality.
>
>but it also says
>
> HTTP content negotiation (section 12) uses short "floating
> point" numbers to indicate the relative importance
> ("weight") of various negotiable parameters.
Technically, Qvalues are *fixed* point real numbers.
(Or even just real numbers with limited range and precision.)
GK.
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Graham Klyne
Received on Wednesday, 19 November 1997 07:43:36 UTC