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Article #11754Re: Integer/floating
From: amos shapir
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 13:19
Date: Thu, 23 May 1991 13:19
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[Quoted from the referenced article by hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)] > >Is the 1-bit gain from forced normalization worth the other problems? Normalization is not done just for saving one bit. Its main purpose is to ensure a 1-1 correspondence between bit patterns and numeric values. Efficiency is also served: the format used by the IEEE754 standard also produces monotonous values, which makes comparison of FP numbers very easy. -- Amos Shapir amos@cs.huji.ac.il The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Dept. of Comp. Science. Tel. +972 2 585257 GEO: 35 11 46 E / 31 46 21 N
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL!amos From: amos@SHUM.HUJI.AC.IL (amos shapir) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Integer/floating Message-ID: <1207@shum.huji.ac.il> Date: 23 May 91 13:19:32 GMT References: <12451@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: amos@cs.huji.ac.il Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Lines: 13