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Topic: IEEE floating number format
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Doug Schwarz

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Re: IEEE floating number format
Posted: Oct 18, 2012 1:01 PM
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In article <901729a4-6de5-4700-b6a7-04501dbd15fe@googlegroups.com>,
engr.omarkhaliq@gmail.com wrote:

> On Thursday, October 18, 2012 3:14:18 PM UTC+2, engr.om...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi. Could anyone tell how floating number change into IEEE format.
> >
> > like 2.323, 8.9, -0.22 to equivalent 32-bit IEEE format. Thanks.
> this is not I want. I want binary equivalent.
> for example,
>
> 2.323 => 0100000010001110000 (something like this) but in 32-bit precision. I
> hope know you will understand my problem. Thanks

Do you mean something like this?

>> dec2bin(typecast(single(2.323),'uint32'),32)
ans =
01000000000101001010110000001000

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