3. References

provisions of this International Standard. For dated references, subsequent

amendments to, or revisions of,

any of these publications do not apply. However, parties to agreements

based on this International Standard

are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent

editions of the normative documents

indicated below. For undated references, the latest edition of the

normative document referred to applies.

Members of ISO and IEC maintain registers of currently valid International

Standards.

ECMA-335, 2nd Edition, December 2002, Common Language Infrastructure (CLI),

Partition IV: Base

Class Library (BCL), Extended Numerics Library, and Extended Array Library

(also published as ISO/IEC

23271:2002).

ISO 31.11:1992, Quantities and units — Part 11: Mathematical signs and

symbols for use in the physical

sciences and technology.

ISO/IEC 2382.1:1993, Information technology — Vocabulary — Part 1:

Fundamental terms.

ISO/IEC 10646 (all parts), Information technology — Universal

Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS).

IEC 60559:1989, Binary floating-point arithmetic for microprocessor systems

(previously designated IEC

559:1989). (This standard is widely known by its U.S. national designation,

ANSI/IEEE Standard 754-1985,

IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic.)

The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, defined by: The

Unicode Standard, Version

3.0 (Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-61633-5), Unicode

Technical Report #15: Unicode

Normalization Forms, and Unicode Technical Report #19: UTF-32.

The following references are informative:

ISO/IEC 9899:1999, Programming languages — C.

ISO/IEC 14882:1998, Programming languages — C++.

ANSI X3.274-1996, Programming Language REXX. (This document is useful in

understanding floatingpoint

decimal arithmetic rules.)

End of informative references