On 8/04/2013, at 11:21 AM, Levent Erkok wrote:
> It appears that the consensus is that this is a historical definition dating 
> back to the times when IEEE754 itself wasn't quite clear on the topic itself, 
> and "so nobody thought that hard about negative zeroes." (The quote is from a 
> comment from Lennart.)

I would expect abs(f) to be identical to copysign(f, 1.0).



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