Re^6: Unpacking extended-double precision floats

According to the wikipedia article on double precision floats it has 1 sign bit 11 exponent bits and 52 mantissa bits

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Re^7: Unpacking extended-double precision floats by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Nov 30, 2006 at 13:28 UTC
52-actual bits, but there is also an impled bit in for an effective mantissa of 53-bits. The tricky bit[sic] is that in the 64-bit mantissa of the 80-bit animal, there is not an implied bit. Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Unpacking extended-double precision floats by herveus (Prior) on Nov 30, 2006 at 13:29 UTC
Howdy! Yep. That's the 64-bit flavor. The 80-bit flavor is 1 sign bit, 15 or more exponent bits, and 64 or more mantissa bits. yours, Michael	[reply]