Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] norm()
Date: Thursday, 08 Oct 2020, 17:36:30

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Would it be correct to think about norm(y) as rep(|y|), provided the range
    > of representable numbers is centered at 0?

No.  As I just posted,

  rep(x) is only defined for representable numbers x.
   
  norm(y) is only defined for nonnegative numbers y (which
  result from addition or multiplication of nonnegative
  representatives of representable values).

--Stan-