version 0.004; 2007-01-12
* bugfix: correct value for max_integer to 2^(significand_bits+1),
and correct its description in the documentation
* make pos_zero and neg_zero constants into non-constant functions
that return fresh floating point zeroes, if running on a Perl where
floating point zeroes can transmogrify into integer zeroes
* add float_id_cmp() function for total ordering of floats
* in documentation, more details of behaviour of zeroes
* in documentation, discussion of interaction with native integer values
* in documentation, note truncating behaviour of the % operator
* in documentation, note the slightly misleading nature of the names
"significand_bits" and "max_integer"
* reference Data::Integer and perlnumber(1) in documentation
version 0.003; 2006-08-08
* float_hex(): add OPTIONS parameter to control details of output
formatting
* when looking for NaNs, see whether the string "nan" qualifies
* slight clarification to documentation of significand_step
version 0.002; 2006-08-03
* bugfix: in mult_pow2(), copysign(), and nextafter(), take care
to return a pristine signed zero when returning zero: they were
returning zeroes that got broken (due to the Perl bug noted in the
documentation) by internal arithmetic
version 0.001; 2006-08-01
* add IEEE 754 functions copysign() and nextafter()
* test sign of zero using sprintf() to avoid being confused by dualvars
* slight expansion of initial paragraph of documentation
version 0.000; 2006-07-30
* initial released version