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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Decimals after the point
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:17:10 -0800
Date: 2002-11-18T05:30:18+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m4t9ra.0g4.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DD843EB.54704091@adaworks.com

Richard Riehle fed this fish to the penguins on Sunday 17 November 2002 
05:35 pm:

> I am reminded of a project that required reading floating point
> numbers from a VAX on an another computer.   The project
> involved data from a site that had just lost a contract and
> they had to send the data to us.    The sign bit for the VAX
> is smack-dab in the middle of the 32 bit word.  Our machine
> had the sign bit in the high-order bit.
>
        Heh... E-Float, D-Float, G-Float, or H-Float <G>


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      reply	other threads:[~2002-11-18  5:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-06 23:01 Decimals after the point Genevieve B.
2002-11-06 22:08 ` Decimals after the point (school question) Larry Kilgallen
2002-11-07  2:06 ` Decimals after the point Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-11-08  3:50   ` Steven Deller
2002-11-09  5:08 ` SteveD
2002-11-18  1:35   ` Richard Riehle
2002-11-18  5:17     ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
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