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Such a good writer. His Wolfenstein book had the best explanation I’ve ever seen for how floating point numbers are encoded, and that explanation is in the firs
by jankins 8y ago
Such a good writer. His Wolfenstein book had the best explanation I’ve ever seen for how floating point numbers are encoded, and that explanation is in the first several pages. If you don’t have an understanding of floating point encoding, that alone is worth the purchase price.
- D_Guidi 8y agoHere the "floating point" excerpt from the book: http://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/index.php http://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/...
- packetpirate 8y agoAm I alone in thinking that the sign, exponent and mantissa model makes more sense, and that (-1)^S * 1.M * 2^(E-127) isn't that hard to understand? Maybe because I already understand that model, but his explanation just made it more confusing for me.