On Saturday, 2 July 2016 at 20:49:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/2/16 4:30 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/2/2016 1:17 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
So what's the fastest way to figure that an integral is
convertible to a
floating point value precisely (i.e. no other integral
converts to the
same
floating point value)? Thanks! -- Andrei
Test that its absolute value is <= the largest unsigned value
represented by the float's mantissa bits.
What is the largest unsigned value represented by the float's
mantissa bits? I recall there is a constant somewhere for it.
-- Andrei
Isn't it 2^24-1?
