Operations
Required operations for a supported arithmetic format (including the basic formats) include:
- Arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide, square root, fused multiply–add, remainder, etc.)
- Conversions (between formats, to and from strings, etc.)
- Scaling and (for decimal) quantizing
- Copying and manipulating the sign (abs, negate, etc.)
- Comparisons and total ordering
- Classification and testing for NaNs, etc.
- Testing and setting flags
- Miscellaneous operations.
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