"Tommy Nordgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8 dec 2007, at 12.52, Mario M. Mueller wrote: > > > Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: > > > > [...] > >> BTW, who in his mind designs three byte floats? Memory isn't that > >> expensive anymore. Even C bool is four bytes long. > > > > It's output of a digitizer (but not that old). I was also wondering > > about > > the reason for this limitation (maybe the design is ~20 years old). > > > > Mario > > -- > One thing to consider: It is possible that one of the bytes > contributes bits > to BOTH the mantissa and the exponent ; Do you know the relative > accurazy of the digitizer?
What is it digitising - if its an Analogue to Digital converter, then the 24 bits may not be floats at all, but simple integer counts. Is there no Fine Manual documenting the output format? - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list