The M68000 Family Programmer's Reference Manual (which covers the
68040) states the range of a double precision real as 2.2 x 10^-308 to
1.8 x 10^308. It is an eight byte format as shown:
63 62 52 51 0
-- -------- --------
|s|exponent|fraction| (They use 'fraction' instead of 'mantissa'.)
It also states that the supported formats comply fully with IEEE 754.
Ian.
-----Original Message-----
From: jerome.grimbert
Sent: 18 May 2001 09:17
To: ql-users
Cc: jerome.grimbert
Subject: [ql-users] another float question
I have a strange question about float number:
what are the maximal and minimal values for a float, on the QL.
I have found the answer for Abacus (it's in the doc!), but
not for the SBasic/whole system.
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