[dba-Tech] Conversion of REAL decimal numbers to Hex

Josh McFarlane darsant at gmail.com
Tue Mar 21 12:31:47 CST 2006


On 3/21/06, Josh McFarlane <darsant at gmail.com> wrote:
> Basically, they're encoding it to something akin to X.XXXXXX * 10 ^ YY

On another note, it looks like the floating point base for IEEE-754 is
not 10, but 2 or something else, so it would be XXXXXXX * 2 ^ YY

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