ZN writes:
...on the QL the implied 1, IIRC, is not removed, so the
mantissa is really a mantissa, not a fraction.
I buy that explanation ;)
Per
Il me semble qu'à l'origine la pub parlait 10^512 et 10^-512 ou quelque
chose comme ça (qui n'a guère de sens avec seulement 7 chiffres
significatifs)
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Il me semble qu'à l'origine la pub parlait 10^512 et 10^-512 ou quelque
chose comme ça (qui n'a guère de sens avec seulement 7 chiffres
significatifs)
That's easy for you to say :o)
I thought it was about 10^604
Jerome Grimbert wrote:
I have a strange question about float number:
what are the maximal and minimal values for a float, on the QL.
That should be from 1E-620 to 1.615850285E616.
Marcel
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 6252 51 0
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|s|exponent|fraction| (They use 'fraction' instead of
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:
This has nothing to do the with QL FP format. The format QDOS uses is
not IEEE compatible.
IIRC the
