Exact meanings of P3109 value queries #
The executable predicates are connected to the exact decoder rather than to an approximate host conversion. The statements apply to every valid descriptor, including precision one.
The raw natural-number decoder and the public decoder have the same exact observation.
The finite query is true precisely when exact decoding produces a finite dyadic.
The infinity query is true precisely when exact decoding produces either signed infinity.
Testing for one agrees with equality of the exact rational observation to one.
Removing the sign partition gives the exact absolute value of every finite datum.
Normality is an exact absolute-value bound at the first normal magnitude code.
Subnormality is an exact nonzero absolute-value bound below the first normal value.
The unique zero code is precisely the datum with exact rational observation zero.
The sign query is precisely strict numerical comparison with zero; NaN is unordered.