Re: Floating Point Numbers

bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I was reading this on Floating Point Numbers:

http://steve.hollasch.net/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html

I began to wonder... how do you know if your numbers are normalized or
denormalized?

ISTM that the numbers must *always* be normalized. The number
must be made normal at the end of every operation. Otherwise
the "phantom one" bit will *not* work.

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