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From: rmyers@net1.ucsd.edu (Robert Myers)
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Subject: Re: Float to sign/exp/mantissa
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Date: 4 Apr 89 22:28:35 GMT
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In article <1026@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) writes:
>   I am sure that someone out there has a routine that given
>a floating point number, what is the sign, exponent and mantissa
>of the number.. I'd rather not re-invent the wheel if this has
>    
>    aTdHvAaNnKcSe
>        Trev

The routines frexp(3) and modf(3) are already part of libm and 
may be what you are looking for.

Raul Rathmann, raul%sdnp1@ucsd.edu