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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients mark.dickinson, pdenis
Date 2017-11-29.22:03:03
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Having read through the rest of that grouper.ieee.org, thread, there doesn't seem to be any disagreement with what Vincent suggests. So I believe that Python's behaviour is consistent with (a) C99, (b) MPFR, and (c) the spirit of IEEE 754. Closing here.
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