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From: KAI@DOOM.platinum.werries.de
Message-ID: <1D63D191TA@DOOM.zer.sub.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:IEEE format
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 22:56:00 CET
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Hi Pochanay.

As your head crashed to your keyboard the
following message appears :

[...]
PW>     Anyway, the question of the day is who's hosed?  C= or me?
PW> If someone could e-mail the IEEE spec that'd be nice as well though as I seem
PW> to have lost mine (although I remember enough to be sure the RKM is wrong).

Single Precision
----------------

Bit(s)		NumBits		Comment
31		1		s=Sign
30-23		8		e=Biased Exponent (Bias of e 127)
22-0		23		f=Fraction

Formula : (-1)^s * 2^(e-127) * 1.f

Max	: 3.4 * 10^38

Double Precision
----------------

Bit(s)		NumBits		Comment
63		1		s=Sign
62-52		11		e=Biased Exponent (Bias of e 1023)
51-0		52		f=Fraction

Formula	: (-1)^s * 2^(e-1023) * 1.f

Max	: 18 * 10^307

Extended Precision
------------------

Bit(s)		NumBits		Comment
95		1		s=Sign
94-80		15		e=Biased Exponent (Bias of e 16383)
79-64		16		Zeros
63		1		j=integerpart
62-0		63		f=Fraction

Formula : (-1)^s * 2^(e-16383) * j.f

Max	: 6 * 10^4931

Bye,
Kai.

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