In article <5d2f2bc9.4010...@gmail.com>, Ken Pettit <petti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey John,
> I was reading the posts about posits ... pretty interesting. > But the Model T ROM doesn't actually use IEEE floating point format ... > It uses a format where the first byte contains the sign bit and 7-bit > exponent, followed by 3 or 7 bytes of BCD encoded data. For the > exponent, 40h represents "zero". In single precision, pi would be (all > hex): I was thinking that, but I wasn't sure and didn't want to be Wrong On The Internet again this week. :-) My friend Lex is involved in HPC research. I pointed this out to him and his response was "meh". Personally, I'm very much not in love with IEEE floats. Willard -- Willard Goosey goo...@sdc.org Socorro, New Mexico, USA I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night. --Robert E. Howard
