Re: reading a float?

To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: reading a float?
From: Scott Ribe <sribe@miqs.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:00:03 -0400 (EDT)
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David Lichteblau wrote:
> 
> Given portable bit-twiddling-functions it's as easy as implementing the
> algorithms presented in these papers.

Well, thanks to my prior unpleasant experience hinted at in my previous
message, I know how to do the bit twiddling on Mac 68k 80-bit, PowerPC
64-bit, and x86 64-bit.

What exactly would you need as far as bit-twiddling?

get-exponent
get-mantissa
get-integer-part
get-fraction-part
get-status (NAN, INF, subnormal, and so on)

References:

reading a float?

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Re: reading a float?

From: David Lichteblau <lichtebl@math.fu-berlin.de>