Sample Excerpt from IEEE 854

• If b != 10, pse must be large enough to support conversion to and from decimal strings (see 5.6). Thus, for b = 2, condition pse >= ps + ceil( log (Emax, s - Emin, s) ) shall be satisfied. For all b, the condition pse >= 1.2 ps shall be satisfied. In addition, the following condition should be satisfied to protect against error in the computation of yx:

• pse > 1 + ps + logb( 3 ln(b) [Emax + 1] )

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