[Python-Dev] Expert floats (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 31 00:05:52 EST 2004


Shane Hathaway <shane at zope.com>:

ROFL! I can just imagine:

bit 0 - mantissa (lower bit) bit 1 - mantissa (upper bit) bit 2 - exponent bit 3 - sign

Is that exponent in excess-1 format? :-)

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