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	P3864R1	Correctly rounded floating-point maths functions	G. Davidson, J. Schultke	SG6 SG22
Intent Proposal Mailing Date 2026-02 Pre-Croydon Author(s) Guy Davidson, Jan Schultke Target Audience SG6 SG22 Tracking issue View on GitHub Abstract This paper proposes adding five overload sets to the standard library for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root calculation, correctly rounded as specified in ISO/IEC 60559:2020.
	P3899R1	Clarify the behavior of floating-point overflow	J. Schultke, M. Kretz	SG6
Intent Proposal Mailing Date 2026-02 Pre-Croydon Author(s) Jan Schultke, Matthias Kretz Target Audience SG6 Revisions R3 R2 Tracking issue View on GitHub Abstract The current specification of floating-point overflow is unclear. Floating-point overflow occurs when finite operands are used as operands, and the result cannot be represented as a finite value. For [[ISO/IEC 60559:2020]](https://www%2eiso%2eorg/standard/80985%2ehtml) floating-point numbers, this results in infinity.
	P3938R1	Values of floating-point types	J. Schultke	SG6
Intent Proposal Mailing Date 2026-02 Pre-Croydon Author(s) Jan Schultke Target Audience SG6 Tracking issue View on GitHub Abstract The core language wording in the C++ standard does not specify what values a floating-point type may represent. There are a few questions that have no obvious answer:

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