| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 29 Sep 2000 at 21:01:56 |
| Subject: | Re: To sum it up |
Hi Everybody,
>> if there supplied equation generates a result somewhere during the
>> procedure which falls outside that window WHAM there's that problem
>> again. If you don't believe me just sit down with pencil and paper
>> and calculate .1 as a binary number.
>
> 00000000 00000001
>
> thought thats what 'float' values were all about?
Nope, If I remember the GNVQ unit on data types, a floating point
value is saved in binary as
xxxxxxxx^yyyy (8 or 16 bits to the power of another 4 or 8 signed).
Therefore 0.5 would be 0010^1110 (2^-2) Well, I think so anyway, I
can't remember where the notes on that went :)
By the way, Alan, ahem, Linux, ahem :)
See ya :)
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