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From: mwm@ea.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Floating Point CD's
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 15:00:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 30 15:00:00 1984
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Nf-From: ea!mwm    Oct 30 14:00:00 1984

There is a floating point format known as FOCUS developed by a grad student
at the University of Oklahoma. It was designed for electronic sampling
instrumentation, and avoids the "hole around zero" problem with normal
floating point representations. Perhaps this would be a better choice than
either a normal floating point or integer representation?

I don't have the article anywhere near me, but will gladly dig it out for
anyone sending mail asking about it.

	<mike