Re: [xacml-comment] A comment on A 14.2 Arithmetic functions

[Polar Humenn <polar@syr.edu>]

ABS is absolute value. It's a pretty well known standard function. The
type doesn't change. A double results in a double, an integer results in
integer. The result is always the positive magnatude of the argument.

-Polar


On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Satoshi Hada wrote:

> >> The following functions SHALL take a single argument of the specified
> data-type.
> >> The round and floor functions SHALL
>
> How about integer-abs and double-abs?
> What does "abs" stand for?
> absolute?
> Anyway, the semantics description should be more elaborated.
>
> >> take a single argument of data-type
> >> "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#double"; and return data-type
> >> "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#double";.
>
> The date type of the return value should be integer???
>
> Satoshi Hada
> IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory
> mailto:satoshih@jp.ibm.com
>
>
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