On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Scott Doctor <scott at scottdoctor.com>
wrote:
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> 17 -> 0x10001 mantissa
>

Not in IEEE binary rep based on the 1/2^i fraction I describe above.
0.17 would be 0/2 + 0/4 + 1/8 (0.125) + ... (whatever 1/2^1 fractions
approximate best the remainder of 0.17 - 0.125). --DD

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