Sujet : Re: Negative zero doesn't exist
De : jbb (at) *nospam* notatt.com (Jeff Barnett)
Groupes : comp.theoryDate : 30. May 2025, 00:09:27
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On 5/29/2025 4:02 PM, Mr Flibble wrote:
Negative zero doesn't exist (in mathematics) so it was a mistake to give
it a representation in IEEE 754: zero should have a single representation.
Doesn't the IEEE spec require that -0=+0 if a compare is done?
-- Jeff Barnett