The December meeting of the 754 group was hosted by David Hough
	at Sun in Menlo Park on Wednesday 12/14 & Thursday 12/15 from
	1:00 to 5:00.

	Here is the attendence list from Thursday.  In future, it will
	be used to keep track of voting members.

			 754
	Name		Member	Affiliation	Email
	----		------	-----------	-----
	Steven Carlough	X	IBM (phone)	carlough@ieee.org
	Marius Cornea	X	Intel (phone)	marius.cornea@intel.com
	Mike Cowlishaw	X	IBM (phone)	mfc@uk.ibm.com
	John Crawford	X	Intel		john.h.crawford@intel.com
	Bob Davis		Summit
	Dick Delp	X	Self		ddelp@pacbell.net
	Mark Erle	X	IBM (phone)	merle@us.ibm.com
	J.P. Fasano		IBM
	Alex Fit-Florea		AMD		ala.fit-florea@amd.com
	Ivan Goddard	X	OOTBC		ivan@ootbcomp.com
	Roger Golliver	X	Intel		roger.a.golliver@intel.com
	Michel Hack	X	IBM (phone)	hack@watson.ibm.com
	John Harrison	X	Intel (phone)	johnh@ichips.intel.com
	David Hough	X	Sun		david.hough@sun.com
	William Kahan	X	U.C.Berkeley	wkahan@berkeley.edu
	Jeff Kidder	X	Intel (phone)	jeff.kidder@intel.com
	Alex Liu	X	Sun		alex.liu@sun.com
	Peter Markstein	X	HP		peter.markstein@hp.com
	Nobuyoshi Mori	X	SAP.COM (phone)	nobuyoshi.mori@sap.com
	Stuart Oberman	X	Nvidia		stuart@nvidia.com
	Jon Okada	X	HP		jon.okada@hp.com
	Ian Ollmann		Apple		iano@apple.com
	Eric Postpischil	Apple		edp@apple.com
	Eric Schwarz	X	IBM (phone)	eschwarz@us.ibm.com
	Ilya Sharapov		Sun		ilya.sharapov@sun.com
	Jim Shearer		IBM
	Michael Siu		Nvidia		msiu@nvidia.com
	Peter Tang	X	Intel		peter.tang@intel.com
	Jim Thomas	X	HP		jim.thomas2@hp.com
	Dan Zuras	X	Group70		r754@nonabelian.com

	On Wednesday, Paul Zimmermann presented a result on a strict
	bound on roundoff error for complex multiply.  It has some
	interesting & useful implications.

	On Thursday, Paul talked about Correctly Rounded Transcendental
	Functions & Arbitrary Precision.  The test for correct rounding
	in the fast case can be done with one FMA.  MPFR was developed
	at LORIA.  He urges us to adopt both transcendentals & arbitrary
	precision (as well as arbitrary precision transcendentals).  We
	have already done so, at least in part & optionally.

	We took our 3:00 break more or less on time.

	After the break we began with the new IEEE operating rules.
	There were sufficient objections to details that it was felt
	that it needed editing before we consider it again.  Jeff will
	head a PnP subcommittee together with Jim & Mike to edit the
	rules for presentation at the January meeting.

	The Decimal Issue.  Dave wanted to know if there had been any
	progress in the past few months.  There has been a compromise
	proposed & Jeff & Mike are charged with writing it up for us.
	(All fields same width & significand different format)  Dave
	pointed out that there is a third party on this issue, the
	users.  Nobuyoshi supported the opinion that the users want
	only one format citing endianness as an example of a needless
	variation.  He also supports database applications for which
	he already has a format & in which only comparison is needed.
	(Mike said there exists a decimal implementation in gcc.)
	Nobu said SAP supports Java, ABAP (an SAP language), & Cobol.
	While many people in the room agreed with his conclusion in
	principle, some felt his arguments lacked demonstrable support.

	Numerical Debugging Horror Stories by Prof Kahan.  We ran too
	long to get to this but we will put it on the January agenda.