[Bug 3252] Terminology: subsets

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=3252





------- Comment #1 from davep@iit.edu  2006-05-10 03:22 -------
(In reply to comment #0)

> In 3.3.5, "Floating point numbers are certain subsets of the rational numbers"
> should read "Floating point numbers are a subset of the rational numbers".

Let us ignore so-called non-normalized or subnormal numbers, the two zeros,
and the infinities and NaN.  The remaining (normalized or normal) values in 
the
value space of float is one subset of the rational numbers and is a set with a
fixed
floating-point precision; the normai(ized) values in the value space of double
form
another.

Given that, how would you say it?  It's not meant as a fornmal definition.

Received on Wednesday, 10 May 2006 03:22:17 UTC