Bob Barr wrote:

> While I'm not familiar with this format, I think that you've started
> from a misinterpretion of the fields to get 0 ^ 0 = 1.
>
> Typically, floating point formats have an implied '1' between the
> exponent field and the mantissa field. Doing that gives you an 'extra'
> bit for free.
>
> Notice that the numbers 2, 4, and 8 all have a zero mantissa. (You can
> be quite certain that 16, 32, 64, etc do as well.) These numbers all
> correspond to a single bit (the implied one) shifted to the proper
> position in the integer.
>
> What is the representation of negative numbers and fractions?
>
> This link on IEEE single point floats may give you some ideas:
>
> http://www.markworld.com/showfloat.html

Thanks Bob, the web site show all the working (although not quite thw same
as CCS does it, I am sure I can work it out from here)


Cheers,
Brian.

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