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Understanding Floating Point Formats

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Understanding basic floating point. Under ordinary circumstances, you don't have to know or care how numbers are represented within your programs. However, when you are transferring data files that contain numbers, you will have to convert if the storage formats are not identical. If the numbers are just integers, that's fairly easy because the only differences will be the length and the byte order: how many bytes the number takes up, and whether it is stored lsb or msb (least significant byte or most significant byte first). Once you know that, conversion is trivial.

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Tony Lawrence

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