[Bug 6228] is float a restriction of double?

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=6228


Dave Peterson <davep@iit.edu> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Dave Peterson <davep@iit.edu>  2008-11-14 17:02:27 ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> The float value space is not a subset of the double value space. It should be,
> but it isn't. The way it is currently defined, the float denoted by 2.5 is
> quite unrelated to the double denoted by 2.5.

You got me!  I'm not sure I'd say "unrelated", but your point, that they are
artificially distinguished, is well taken.  I'll mark this closed, works for
me.  Then will close it.

Amusing aside:  unsignedByte is not derived from short, but I believe it is a
restriction.


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