On Sun Aug 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM CEST, Peter McGoron wrote: > > > I am reluctant to bother with negative zero - it is an implementation > artifact of IEEE and nonsensical, IMHO. Once you start > adding rules for "consistent" handling of negative zeroes, people > will give it semantic meaning, which I'd rather not encourage. > > Two notes: > > 1. Signed zero already has consistent rules in many other parts of > floating-point arithmetic. The biggest example is division, which is in > hardware:
I acknowledge the use in arithmetic but I'm not sure whether this makes much sense in comparisons - the sign itself has not a "magnitude", zero being (in my uneducated common sense) being just ... zero. Perhaps I'm being too stubborn. What do others think? cheers, felix
