Re: conversion to floating point

Ravi <ra.ravi.rav@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

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)

Here is the classic paper on the topic:
http://ftp.ccs.neu.edu/pub/people/will/howtoread.ps
--
Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org
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