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From: Peter Hermann <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: Float to String
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:00:17 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2004-11-10T15:00:17+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cmtadv$9pd$1@news.BelWue.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87bre63qh3.fsf@beeblebrox.rfc1149.net

Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net> wrote:
> Even using T'Machine_Radix doesn't give you a guarantee that you will
> be able to read the value back on another machine with a different
> 'Machine_Radix.

agree.

different radices                 (Radieschen in German language :-)
where the bases are not products of each other
(e.g. like 2 and 16)
lead to irreversibility due to the non-infinity of the mantissa size.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-10 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-08 17:06 Float to String Pascal Obry
2004-11-08 18:29 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-11-08 19:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-08 20:13 ` David C. Hoos
2004-11-08 20:18 ` David C. Hoos
2004-11-09  0:40   ` John B. Matthews
2004-11-09  5:24     ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2004-11-08 21:29 ` Nick Roberts
2004-11-09 17:58   ` Peter Hermann
2004-11-10  9:38     ` Peter Hermann
2004-11-10 12:12       ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-11-09  8:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-09 18:17   ` Pascal Obry
2004-11-10  8:53     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-10 11:15       ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-11-10 14:35         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-10 15:00         ` Peter Hermann [this message]
2004-11-10 15:35         ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-10 16:35           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-10 17:28             ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-11 15:25               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-11 16:40                 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-11 18:31                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-11 22:27                     ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-12 12:19                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-11-12 14:55                         ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-10  5:05 ` Steve
2004-11-10 15:37   ` Pascal Obry
2004-11-10 16:29     ` Alex R. Mosteo
2004-11-10 16:48       ` Pascal Obry
2004-11-10 18:02         ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-10 19:40           ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-10 21:04             ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-11-11  3:33     ` Steve
2004-11-11  7:51       ` tmoran
2004-11-11 12:32         ` Pascal Obry
2004-11-11 15:53           ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2004-11-11 16:17             ` Pascal Obry
2004-11-11 17:36             ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-12  0:01               ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2004-11-12  0:30                 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-11-11 12:30       ` Pascal Obry
2004-11-13 16:37 ` Ginduskina
2004-11-13 18:41   ` Björn Lundin
2004-11-13 16:39 ` Ginduskina
2004-11-13 16:49   ` Simon Wright
2004-11-13 16:53   ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2004-11-13 16:55   ` Pascal Obry
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