"Mario M. Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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).
The IEEE-754 standard was adopted in 1985. Before that (and after that, too), many people used whatever bit layout they wanted for floating point numbers. -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
