http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu/~acpineda/CS471/HTML/ieeeflpt/ seems to have a good overview.
Hilmar.
>The floating point format is described by some IEEE document. Searching google gives several hits ("
http://www.google.com/search?q=IEEE+floating+point+format&sourceid=opera&num=0).
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>HTH, Hilmar.
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>>Hi All,
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>>Has anyone previously read 32 bit floats from disk? I'm importing information from a disk file that contains Character and numeric information. The character info is no problem and I can convert 16 bit Ints easily. However, floats are stored in a totally different format. Has anyone cracked this before?
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>>TIA
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>>Liam
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