Re: conversion to floating point

Ravi wrote:

We enter the floating point numbers through keyboard as normal
strings. How these numbers are converted into internal representation
of floating points (most commonly IEEE754)

With floating point operations, eg. multiplying and dividing by 10.0
and adding each new digit to the sum. The result is the floating
point representation of the number, courtesy of the hardware.

The only complexity is avoiding overflow or underflow during the
process, hard cases.

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