Dear all,
I think that every number x in R can be represented in floating point
arithmetic as:
x = (-1)^s (1+f) 2^(e-1023)
where s is coded on 1 bit, e (positive integer) is coded on 11 bits, and
f (real in [0,1)) is coded on 52 bits.
Am I right?
We have f=\sum_{i=1}^{52} k_i 2^{-i} for some values k_i in {0,1}.
If this is the case (for the 52 bits), we should have:
The number next to 2^150 should be (-1)^02^150(1+2^(-52))=2^150+2^98
I can check this:
> a <- 2^150; b <- a + 2^97; b == a
[1] TRUE
> a <- 2^150; b <- a + 2^98; b == a
[1] FALSE
So it seems that the mantissa is really coded on 52 bits.
But now, if I issue the following commands (using some functions
provided below to translate from decimal to binary):
> dec2bin(0.1,52)
[1] "0.0001100110011001100110011001100110011001100110011001"
>
formatC(sum(as.numeric(strsplit(dec2bin(0.1,52),"")[[1]][-(1:2)])*2^(-(1:52))),50)
[1] "0.099999999999999866773237044981215149164199829101562"
> formatC(0.1,50)
[1] "0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541"
>
formatC(sum(as.numeric(strsplit(dec2bin(0.1,55),"")[[1]][-(1:2)])*2^(-(1:55))),50)
[1] "0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541"
> formatC(0.1,50)
[1] "0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541"
So now, using formatC() it seems that f is coded on 55 bits!
Do you have an explanation for this fact?
Many thanks!
Pierre
dec2bin.ent <- function(x) {
as.integer(paste(rev(as.integer(intToBits(x))), collapse=""))
}
dec2bin.frac <- function(x,prec=52) {
res <- rep(NA,prec)
for (i in 1:prec) {
res[i] <- as.integer(x*2)
x <- (x*2) %% 1
}
return(paste(res,collapse=""))
}
dec2bin <- function(x,prec=52) {
x <- as.character(x)
res <- strsplit(x,".",fixed=TRUE)[[1]]
return(paste(dec2bin.ent(as.numeric(res[1])),dec2bin.frac(as.numeric(paste("0.",res[2],sep="")),prec),sep="."))
}
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