Re: Problems with float variables in C

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From: Trevor L. Jackson, III
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 11:27

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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On 08 Sep 2001 19:10:53 GMT, "Trevor L. Jackson, III"
> <fullmoon@aspi.net> declaimed the following in alt.os.linux.mandrake:
>
> >
> > Normalized numbers (>=FLT_MIN) shift the mantissa and scale the exponent until the
> > MSB of the mantissa is one.  So called "denormalized numbers" aren't shifted
>
>         There is also a format which goes one step beyond that. Since a
> "normalized" number always has a 1-bit at the left of the mantissa, one
> can assume a 1-bit and use the space to extend the exponent by any
> additional bit (or extend the mantissa by one more bit).

Yes.  For example, on the x86 both 32- and 64-bit formats hide the normalized bit while
the 80-bit format does not.
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