1. Re: Peculiar IEEE Bug...
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Boehme, Gabriel wrote:
[A decent explanation]
I was going to attempt to find the pivot tonight. You preempted me.
Saved me some fiddling there. :)
I never actually tried it with positive 1e-308 though...
] So, I'd say it's an IEEE thing.
/me wipes brow... :)
] Gabriel Boehme
]
] P.S. Can anyone tell me where I can find documentation for the IEEE
] standards at work here? I'm curious now...
I know a bit about IEEE as it was part of two of the modules in my degree
course, but none of my textbooks cover this anomaly. Hence me posting to
the group.
See the thread Irv and I are running about converting reals. We cover the
IEEE format for 6 byte floating point numbers (atoms/reals etc).
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