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From: edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt)
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Subject: Re: Why NULL is 0
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Date: 5 Apr 88 17:33:52 GMT
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Aside:

> People (usually ;>) have no problem with the idea the while assigning a
> zero to a float gives it the vaule 0.0, in most implementations the
> float value does not have all bits set to zero.

  I do believe IEEE and Vax's version of float is a bit pattern
consisting of all zeros.  So what are these implementations that don't
use zero bit pattern?


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Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw@ius1.cs.cmu.edu