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Re: Floating point number in BDIRasic & C

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From: Brian Wheeler
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:37
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In <1992Nov19.102706.90644@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> ecn215z@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:


>Does Basic use the same physical format as C when a 
>Single(float) or Double(double) number is stored onto a file?

>Thanks for any info.

>C.L. Chang

I think the newer Microsoft BASIC's use the IEEE floating point format.  I'm
not sure about C, however.

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