On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 4:27 AM Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org>
wrote:

>
> > Supported, yes. Recommended, no. IEEE-754 specifies that the *minimum
> > *operation propagates NaNs while the /alternate /*minimumNumber
> > *operation drops NaNs.
>
> It should be noted, this is a change in the Standard that is just 1 year
> old. The previous version did define minimum as similar to the
> minimumNumber version.
>

Thanks for this info. I really dislike "standards" being hidden behind
paywalls. I believe that contributes to people disregarding them. And it's
sloppy to not highlight changes in a new version of a standard.

--- Bruce
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