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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: IEEE floating point format
Message-ID: <1270@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 29 Jul 89 16:33:57 GMT
References: <2170002@hpldsla.HP.COM> <9697@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State Univ. Computation Center
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In article <9697@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>In article <2170002@hpldsla.HP.COM>, manoj@hpldsla.HP.COM (Manoj Joshi) writes:
 
>> What is the format for the IEEE floating point storage
 
>The format is:
 
>	field		32-bit format		64-bit format
 
>	sign			1			1
>	exponent		8			12
>	fraction		23			55
                            ------                    -----
				32 (ok!)                68 (huh?)
 
      Is it <1,8,55>, <1,12,51> or some other thing?
      (or have they found a way for more hidden bits :-)


      John