On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:40:14PM +0200, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > I hate floating point. if you search Google for 2^1023,
> you get this result: > > 2^1023 = 8.98846567 × 10^307 > > However if you search for 2^1024, you don't get a number at all. Do you prefer to do that in fixed-point? It's actually neat to be able to use a relatively low number of bits and still say something meaningfull about 2^1023 . -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
