From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,19805810c471a6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-17 21:30:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn14feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!beastie.ix.netcom.com!nobody From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Decimals after the point Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:17:10 -0800 Organization: >> Leaf-Eating Penguins? << Message-ID: References: <4bhy9.52855$T_3.627411@wagner.videotron.net> <3DD843EB.54704091@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a5.f7.ce.6d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Server-Date: 18 Nov 2002 05:30:18 GMT User-Agent: KNode/0.6.1 X-noarchive: yes Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31021 Date: 2002-11-18T05:30:18+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- > ============================================================== < > wlfraed@ix.netcom.com | Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG < > wulfraed@dm.net | Bestiaria Support Staff < > ============================================================== < > Bestiaria Home Page: http://www.beastie.dm.net/ < > Home Page: http://www.dm.net/~wulfraed/ <