Julio Di Egidio <ju...@diegidio.name> writes: > On Thursday, 2 September 2021 at 15:52:02 UTC+2, Hope Rouselle wrote: > >> I don't understand floating-point numbers from the inside out, but I do >> know how to work with base 2 and scientific notation. So the idea of >> expressing a number as >> >> mantissa * base^{power} > > That's the basic idea, but the actual (ISO) floating-point *encoding* > is more complicated than that. > >> is not foreign to me. (If that helps you to perhaps instruct me on >> what's going on here.) > > This is the "classic": > DAVID GOLDBER > What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic > <http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/jean-michel.muller/goldberg.pdf> > > Here is some more introductory stuff: > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic> > <https://www.phys.uconn.edu/~rozman/Courses/P2200_15F/downloads/floating-point-guide-2015-10-15.pdf>
Rozman's was pretty concise and nice. Thank you. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list