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From: perry@intelob.intel.com (Perry The Cynic)
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Subject: Re: IEEE floating point
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Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 16:02:08 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 16:02:08 1987
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In article <871@cup.portal.com> Steven_N_Jones@cup.portal.com writes:
>    In its announcements of new language products, Microsoft has said
>that it is standardizing on the IEEE floating point format.  Could
>somebody point me in the right direction; I'm not sure where this
>format would be explained.

This format (and the operations performed on it) are an ANSI standard:

	IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic
	ANSI/IEEE standard 754-1985

Your favorite technical library ought to have it. Or write to

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc
345 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017

I don't know if they charge for it.
  -- perry
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