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Re: IEEE-754-2008 standard questions

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On Feb 4, 9:18 pm, Daku <dakup...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So, given all of this, how would one convert
> a number from the IEEE-754-2008 format
> to the standard human understandable form.

I'm not understanding your question.

The fact that there is a "hidden bit" doesn't make it that much more
difficult to convert such a number to a human-readable value. All
that's needed is to read the standard carefully enough to know exactly
where to place the binary point - exactly what offset is to be applied
to the exponent.

Everything else is just about the same as converting any other
floating-point format.

John Savard

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