how to convert 3 byte to float

[Tommy Nordgren]

On 8 dec 2007, at 12.52, Mario M. Mueller wrote:

> Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:
>
> [...]
>> BTW, who in his mind designs three byte floats? Memory isn't that
>> expensive anymore. Even C bool is four bytes long.
>
> It's output of a digitizer (but not that old). I was also wondering  
> about
> the reason for this limitation (maybe the design is ~20 years old).
>
> Mario
> -- 
	One thing to consider: It is possible that one of the bytes  
contributes bits
to BOTH the mantissa and the exponent ; Do you know the relative  
accurazy of the digitizer?
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