On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 21:00 +0200, cpolymeris@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> [...]If numbers
> from binary 0.1 to 1.0 are represented using 24 bits (sign bit + mantissa, I
> think the implicit 1 does not count)
You could represent numbers to 1 bit of precision using a zero bit
mantissa (ie exponent only) format. So the implicit 1 definitely does
count.
Simon.
Received on Sat Oct 15 00:15:09 2005
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Sat Oct 15 2005 - 00:15:09 EEST