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From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Integer/floating
Message-ID: <4752.2847b398@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 1 Jun 91 19:47:52 GMT
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In article <1207@shum.huji.ac.il>, amos@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (amos shapir) writes:
> Efficiency is also served: the format used by the IEEE754 standard also
> produces monotonous values, which makes comparison of FP numbers very easy.
>
This thread has not become monotonous, it is just beginning to be
interesting.

The word you wanted is monotonic.  (Don't be offended, my Hebrew is
very poor.)

dan herrick
herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com