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| Started by | Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> |
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| First post | 2017-05-02 11:52 -0400 |
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Re: double bits Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-05-02 11:52 -0400
| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> |
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| Date | 2017-05-02 11:52 -0400 |
| Subject | Re: double bits |
| Message-ID | <oea9qj$6hu$1@dont-email.me> |
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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