Re:Formatting floating point numbers
by DougBTX on Friday June 14, 2019 @10:16AM
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At least for me, that's the most interesting part of it. (0.125 isn't in the range I mentioned above though)
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Ok this is getting a bit meta recursive, I made a mistake in the explanation of my mistake that I attempted to edit away before you replied to it. Anyway, I was talking about the range above your range, yo dawg :D...
How if you took a limited precision range of rationals in base 10, e.g 0.10000 to 0.20000 and convert them to base 2, there are "holes" of non-representable numbers in the range. These holes are of different sizes, (one of which is the range you are talking about), so I summarized it as that.