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From: Bill DeWitt
Subject: Re: binary help
Date: 4 Oct 2001 23:34:08
Message: <3bbd2a30$1@news.povray.org>

"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] hotmailcom> wrote :
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> Followup set to povray.general.


    Oooo... twice so far in the history of p.o.t.

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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: binary help
Date: 5 Oct 2001 04:52:41
Message: <3bbd74d9@news.povray.org>

"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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Nice - but like my perl solution and bob's windows solution, it doesn't deal
with fractions (I know, I know, I never mentioned that - sorry).

Actually I got mine to deal with simple fractions, such as 0.5 and 0.25 etc. and
I THINK I now know how to deal with more fiddly ones. I think I keep doubling it
until the fractional part is either negligble in comparison to the integer part,
or until it disappears...

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From: Tor Olav Kristensen
Subject: Re: binary help
Date: 15 Oct 2001 15:35:42
Message: <3BCB3A33.1E311C94@hotmail.com>

Tom Melly wrote:
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> "Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:3BBCFCD2.6558A619@hotmail.com...
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Nice - but like my perl solution and bob's windows solution, it doesn't deal
> with fractions (I know, I know, I never mentioned that - sorry).
> 
> Actually I got mine to deal with simple fractions, such as 0.5 and 0.25 etc. and
> I THINK I now know how to deal with more fiddly ones. I think I keep doubling it
> until the fractional part is either negligble in comparison to the integer part,
> or until it disappears...

That sounds like a working strategy.


But maybe this page does what you need ?

http://babbage.cs.qc.edu/courses/cs341/IEEE-754.html

"IEEE-754 Floating-Point Conversion
From Decimal Floating-Point
To 32-bit and 64-bit Hexadecimal Representations
Along with Their Binary Equivalents"


Tor Olav

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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: binary help
Date: 16 Oct 2001 05:02:53
Message: <3bcbf7bd@news.povray.org>

"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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>
>
> That sounds like a working strategy.
>

It does? Wow!

>
> But maybe this page does what you need ?
>
> http://babbage.cs.qc.edu/courses/cs341/IEEE-754.html
>

Looks like it - many thanks...

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