Hugs971031 gives floatDigits to 24 (resp. 53) for 4 (resp 8) byte IEEE
binary floats; however, the number of bits in the mantissa are 23 (resp
52). (There looks to be a errors on p.119 in "A C Reference Manual" by
Harbison-Steele. For a 4-byte float, they give a 24 bit mantissa, an
exponent in the range [-125, 128], which consumes 8 bits, plus a sign bit,
which adds up to 33, not 32.)
So what is the correct value of floatDigits?
Hans Aberg
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