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Randall Gellens <randy@qti.qualcomm.com> Thu, 14 March 2013 22:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [86attendees] Pie?
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At 10:43 AM -0400 3/14/13, Carlos M. Martinez wrote:

>  The IETF is the land of integer arithmetic. The ancient Greeks would
>  have been proud of us.
>
>  However, we can pay homage to our floating-point brethren (given that
>  there are IEEE folk around) and have some pie anyway.

What about RFC 2616 q-values?

    HTTP content negotiation (section 12) uses short "floating point"
    numbers to indicate the relative importance ("weight") of various
    negotiable parameters.  A weight is normalized to a real number in
    the range 0 through 1

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