Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] difference between norm() and rep()
Date: Thursday, 08 Oct 2020, 17:35:26

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > Hi, if I am understanding it correctly, norm(y) - y is a multiple of c (c
    > is the total number representable). rep(x) - x is also a multiple of c.
    > I am not sure about the difference between normalization and representative.

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-