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:Hi Dmitry, I have never heard of 'Ideals' with respect to floating point; and indeed, it is not in the quoted reference [http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic]. After reading the reference again, it seems to call them 'Special Quantities' which would lead to a task title something like "Special quantities in floating point values" which would read better than say "Ideal values in floating point values". If, however, ideal is a common term amongst floating point specialists, then maybe we should use the latter? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 21:52, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
:They are values of the IEEE floating point type. --[[Special:Contributions/71.141.138.49|71.141.138.49]] 04:33, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
::Do you know if the IEEE spec' uses a blanket term for them? I had hoped to leave the description loose enough for those using other floating point spec's to adapt accordingly and form their own entries. As the very informative Ada entry has managed to do. ( Yeah!) --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 05:43, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
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