RE: floating point convertion

From: Mark Cohen wrote: : Hello , : : I have a transferred a file from an IBM mainframe : to a windows platform that I need to analyse. The : file contains an 8 byte floating point hexadecimal : representaion 44FE8800. : : This should be converted to the number

RE: floating point convertion

Mark Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Hello Charles, : I don't understand why you are getting differnet : results. I checked approximatley 1000 records : containing different floating points and it seems : that the result is similar to the results I'm : getting from SAS but I'll try to understan