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From: john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck )
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Subject: Re: Float to sign/exp/mantissa
Summary: rtfm
Message-ID: <458@polyof.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 13:36:35 GMT
References: <1026@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Organization: Polytechnic University, Farmingdale NY
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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
> already been done...

Most Unix manuals have the frexp(3C) and ldexp(3c) functions which do
what you want.  [man 3 frexp].  If your system does not have them under
frexp/ldexp, they MAY be called something else.  Check your permuted
index.

John Buck
john@polyof.poly.edu
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