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Re: 10 bytes real [message #22256 is a reply to message #22253]

Thu, 26 October 2000 23:20

Thierry Wannier
Messages: 4
Registered: May 1998

Junior Member

Thanks for the idea, but unfortunately it does not solve my problem, since the
data file really contains 10 bytes reals.
I thought that a way to turn around the problem would be to
a) read the ten bytes,
b) reorder them in little-endian (PC type if I recall correctly)
c) read the components of the number (i.e. decompose the real in its
significand and exponent parts (that's how I do understand reals are build
up))
d) recompose a real (double precision: 16 bytes) using this information.

Unfortunately, I am no computer specialist but just a middle range user, and I
have
no idea about the possibilities of doing this decomposition/recomposition of a
real number.

T.

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		Re: 10 bytes real By: Peter Mason on Mon, 30 October 2000 13:46
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Ed Santiago on Mon, 30 October 2000 05:39
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 27 October 2000 09:39
		Re: 10 bytes real By: davidf on Fri, 27 October 2000 09:08
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Karl Schultz on Fri, 27 October 2000 08:39
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Thierry Wannier on Thu, 26 October 2000 23:20
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 26 October 2000 15:40
		Re: 10 bytes real By: promashkin on Thu, 26 October 2000 15:07
		Re: 10 bytes real By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 26 October 2000 08:31

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