On 2008-03-05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the reply but I'm still unsure as to how to > continue. Using the bitwise operators will help me deal with > integers but I really want to work with floats.
In your original post, you said that you've got the values as integers. > For instance - which bits do I twiddle to round my float to > the nearest number of bits? The format of a float (actually Python uses doubles) depends on your platform, but in all likelihood it's the IEEE-754 64-bit format. googling for "IEEE-754 format" finds some good references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating-point_standard http://steve.hollasch.net/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html http://www.psc.edu/general/software/packages/ieee/ieee.html -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Well, I'm INVISIBLE at AGAIN ... I might as well visi.com pay a visit to the LADIES ROOM ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list