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The negative exponent bothers me. Every implementation I've used specifies either mantissa bits or exponent bits, as a positive value. The extraneous '-' everyw
by thwest 11y ago
The negative exponent bothers me. Every implementation I've used specifies either mantissa bits or exponent bits, as a positive value. The extraneous '-' everywhere feels like a waste
- Retra 11y agoI don't understand your complaint... A waste of what? You'd rather have all values expressed in terms of just raw bits?
- Veedrac 11y agoGiven there are no exponent bits (all of the bits are effectively mantissa bits with no hidden bit), your plan doesn't seem to make sense. The numbers are (integer_value * 2 ^ constant_exponent), such that all bits are dedicated to integer_value.