Re: Initializing floating point types with explicit mantisa and exponent

2017-01-17 Thread Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at 18:25:46 UTC, kinke wrote: It should and I looked into that as well, but I didn't like the implementation as loop: https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/std/math.d#L5988 A special case for base x == 2 wouldn't hurt. That seems strange. Why isn't that a bu

Re: Initializing floating point types with explicit mantisa and exponent

2017-01-17 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at 17:56:13 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at 16:40:57 UTC, kinke wrote: If it doesn't have to be D ;), it can be as simple as `core.stdc.math.ldexp(1, exponent)`. No CTFE though. Isn't it a simple as 2.0^^exponent ? It should and I looked i

Re: Initializing floating point types with explicit mantisa and exponent

2017-01-17 Thread Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at 16:40:57 UTC, kinke wrote: If it doesn't have to be D ;), it can be as simple as `core.stdc.math.ldexp(1, exponent)`. No CTFE though. Isn't it a simple as 2.0^^exponent ?

Re: Initializing floating point types with explicit mantisa and exponent

2017-01-17 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at 00:08:24 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: How do I best initialize a D double to an exact mantissa and exponent representation? I'm specifically interested in 2^^i for all i in [min_exp, max_exp] If it doesn't have to be D ;), it can be as simple as `core.stdc.math.lde

Re: Initializing floating point types with explicit mantisa and exponent

2017-01-16 Thread Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at 00:08:24 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: How do I best initialize a D double to an exact mantissa and exponent representation? I'm specifically interested in 2^^i for all i in [min_exp, max_exp] See std.bitmanip : FloatRep , DoubleRep;

Re: Initializing floating point types with explicit mantisa and exponent

2017-01-16 Thread pineapple via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 at 00:08:24 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: How do I best initialize a D double to an exact mantissa and exponent representation? I'm specifically interested in 2^^i for all i in [min_exp, max_exp] This mach module can do the job: https://github.com/pineapplemachine/mach

Initializing floating point types with explicit mantisa and exponent

2017-01-16 Thread Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn
How do I best initialize a D double to an exact mantissa and exponent representation? I'm specifically interested in 2^^i for all i in [min_exp, max_exp]