[Python-Dev] Expert floats

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 31 00:05:52 EST 2004


Shane Hathaway <shane at zope.com>:

> ROFL!  I can just imagine:
> 
>    bit 0 - mantissa (lower bit)
>    bit 1 - mantissa (upper bit)
>    bit 2 - exponent
>    bit 3 - sign

Is that exponent in excess-1 format? :-)

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