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I've heard of wrap around and saturate, but promote to float? What?! Do you have more info on how that worked?
by ndesaulniers 5y ago
I've heard of wrap around and saturate, but promote to float? What?! Do you have more info on how that worked?
- irishsultan 5y agoSame way it does in Javascript?
- Animats 5y ago48-bit numbers. "The internal format of a single-precision floating-point number consisted of one unused bit, followed by the sign of the number, then the sign of the exponent, then a six-bit exponent, then 39-bit mantissa. The bias of the exponent was such that it could be considered to be in excess-32 notation as long as the mantissa was considered to be a binary integer instead of a binary fraction. This allowed integers to also be interpreted as unnormalized floating-point numbers."[1] So there was only one numeric format at the hardware level. Convenient. [1] http://employees.oneonta.edu/zhangs/csci201/general%20Floating%20Point%20Format.htm http://employees.oneonta.edu/zhangs/csci201/general%20Floati...