Re: whole number constants

dancerchris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
(snip)

> I think my confusion has been in the conversion of lower rank number
> (say single to double precision).  If it is not a "floating point
> number" the decimal conversion of the bianary produces non-zeros in
> the digits 8-15 places to the right of the decimal point.  I
> understand now that these are not extra bits but conversion digits.

Well, it normally adds binary zeros onto the end of the
binary representation.

A binary fraction converted to decimal has the same number of
digits after the decimal point as the binary fraction
has after the binary point.   In precision, a decimal digit
is worth about 3.32 bits.   Conversion digits isn't a
bad name for them.

-- glen