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Re: Is this an fwrite/fread bug or just a floating point quirk?
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John W. Eaton |
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Re: Is this an fwrite/fread bug or just a floating point quirk? |
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Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:22:06 -0400 |
On 25-Apr-2007, David Grohmann wrote:
| hmmm so my next question is how can I clear the bottom 29 bits of the
| fraction so I can have a fake single precision value.
Why do you want that? What good does it do to throw away the extra
precision and range? I always thought the only reason to use single
precision values was to save space, not because it was desirable to
limit the precision and range of the calculations.
jwe