Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: all bits zero?
Message-ID: <1990Mar22.173917.12307@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <16237@haddock.ima.isc.com> <568@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 90 17:39:17 GMT

In article <568@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> jc@atcmp.nl (Jan Christiaan van Winkel) writes:
>And how about floats/double-s? I know the IEEE standard says that an exponent
>of all zeroes signifies the number 0.0, but how about other float notations?

No promises are made about floating-point representations.  Only the integers
are constrained to be represented in a known form, partly because the bit
operators don't make much sense otherwise.
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