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I think it’s a splendid idea (but you already knew that). On Jun 18, 2013, at 6:45 PM, Michael Gottesman <mgottesman at apple.com> wrote: > IEEE-754R defines a normal floating point number as: > 2.1.38 normal number: For a particular format, a finite non-zero floating-point number with magnitude greater than or equal to a minimum bemin value, where b is the radix. Normal numbers can

IEEE-754R defines a normal floating point number as: 2.1.38 normal number: For a particular format, a finite non-zero floating-point number with magnitude greater than or equal to a minimum bemin value, where b is the radix. Normal numbers can use the full precision available in a format. In this standard, zero is neither normal nor subnormal. This implies that a denormal is not a normal number.