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Re: E.P E. E.EXACT

From marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: E.P E. E.EXACT
Date 2026-08-06 21:05 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <1152lu4$3788$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <2026Aug5.200203@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <115219i$3rqt4$1@dont-email.me> <2026Aug6.160054@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <1152a6j$3uh9r$1@dont-email.me>

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On 8/6/2026 5:45 PM, Krishna Myneni wrote:
> On 8/6/26 09:00, Anton Ertl wrote:
>> Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> writes:
[..]
> E. is useful for finding the shortest decimal input which will convert 
> to the internal representation for a given decimal floating point input. 
> I wonder if there is a more direct way to arrive at that, rather than 
> the iterative procedure.[..]

HEX string input and output when the provider and consumer can not 
communicate in binary, or when the binary formats are not standard IEEE.
As FE. and friends are currently 'ambiguous' when BASE is not DECIMAL, 
it could be done without adding new words. However, >FLOAT might be a 
problem.

-marcel

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E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-05 18:02 +0000
  Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-06 08:13 -0500
    Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 14:00 +0000
      Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-06 10:45 -0500
        Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 15:58 +0000
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 17:20 +0000
        Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-06 21:05 +0200
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-06 20:38 +0000
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-06 18:44 -0500
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-07 11:03 +1000
            Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-07 10:11 +0000
              Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-08 14:39 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-08 06:32 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-09 04:50 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 20:01 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-10 18:06 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-10 17:24 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-11 14:01 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-10 22:10 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-11 04:56 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-11 22:16 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-12 05:47 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT peter <peter.noreply@tin.it> - 2026-08-12 18:03 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-12 11:48 -0500
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-08 09:14 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-08 09:40 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-08 15:26 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-10 16:43 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-09 13:43 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-09 07:19 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 19:15 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-10 13:17 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 22:59 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-10 23:54 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-10 20:42 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-11 17:10 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-12 14:04 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 16:43 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-22 15:47 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 18:27 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-22 16:40 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 19:42 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-08-22 18:03 +0000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 22:56 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT marcel hendrix <mhx@iae.nl> - 2026-08-23 00:50 +0200
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-23 12:25 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Hans Bezemer <the.beez.speaks@gmail.com> - 2026-08-09 14:52 +0200
            Re: E.P E. E.EXACT Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2026-08-07 07:50 -0500
              Re: E.P E. E.EXACT dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2026-08-08 12:33 +1000
                Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 17:01 +0200
          Re: E.P E. E.EXACT albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2026-08-22 16:15 +0200

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