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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: IEEE floating point format
Message-ID: <3554@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 30 Jul 89 17:17:54 GMT
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In article <9697@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>	exponent all 1's	fraction == 0		infinity
>	exponent all 1's	fraction != 0		NaN
>	exponent all 0's				denormalized

Fascinating; but, what does it mean to say "denormalized" in this context?

				--Blair
				  "Webster is mute on this
				   topic, and I'm only a SM."