Talk:Decimal floating point number to binary: Difference between revisions
Talk:Decimal floating point number to binary (view source)
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:: I ''believe'' the task is asking for a printed form that is in base two, i.e., that uses only the digits <tt>0</tt> and <tt>1</tt> (and appropriate non-digit characters). Thus, <tt>0.75</tt><sub>dec</sub> is the same as <tt>0.11</tt><sub>bin</sub>. ?[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] ([[User talk:Dkf|talk]]) 00:35, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
::: To me this task is not correctly named. I understand "floating point number" defined by IEEE and what, e.g., PL/I produces when one codes
::: <lang pli>Dcl f Dec Fixed(15); f=1/3; Put skip list(f,unspecx(f)); </lang>
::: <pre>3.33333333333333E+0000 ABAAAAAAAAAA0A40</pre>
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