#7830: function for floating point representation of a number
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Reporter: jason | Owner: AlexGhitza
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_work
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.3.1
Component: basic arithmetic | Keywords:
Author: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Merged:
Work_issues: |
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Changes (by robertwb):
* status: needs_review => needs_work
Comment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985
The exponent for 0 should be 0. This also avoids the issue of platform
dependance for that value, and {{{RDF(0)}}}'s exponent being
unrealistically small.
Also, sage/rings/real_mpfr.pyx, line 1890 should be EXAMPLES::
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