To: J3                                                     J3/07-113
From:        Van Snyder
Subject:    RRSPACING (UTI 092)
Date: 2007 January 22



1    Introduction
UTI 092 argues that RRSPACING(X) should be an IEEE NaN if X is IEEE Inf.
On the other hand, how- ever, RRSPACING(X) can be written as
ABS(FRACTION(X)) * RADIX(X) / EPSILON(X). RADIX and EPSILON are inquiry
functions, so their result values don't depend upon their argument values,
while the result value of FRACTION(X) is defined to be "the same value as
X" if X is an IEEE infinity. I would be really surprised if ABS(Inf ) or
ABS(-Inf ) were not Inf, so RRSPACING(ħInf ) ought to be +Inf.

2    Edits
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[Editor: "zero" => "an IEEE NaN".]

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[Editor: Delete UTI 092.]

3    On the other hand
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[Editor: insert "= ABS(FRACTION(X)) * RADIX(X) / EPSILON(X)" after "bp ".]

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[Editor: "zero" => "IEEE VALUE(X,IEEE POSITIVE INF) (14.1, 14.10.36)" or
"zero"  "positive IEEE infinity".]

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[Editor: Delete UTI 092.]