[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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