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Re: double bits

From	Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: double bits
Date	2017-05-02 11:52 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<oea9qj$6hu$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<bits-20170502040246@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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On 5/1/2017 11:08 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
>    Today, I was trying to actually see the double bits.
> [...]
>    Well, I am left somewhat confused now. I would not be able
>    to predict one of those bit patterns from the number. For
>    example, why »1« has so many 1 bits, but then »2« has one
>    1 bit only.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format

>    Hope that my conversion method »print« at least is correct.

     Cringe-worthy, but correct.

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