On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Dmitriy Kiryashov wrote:

>> xx.yy  = 0XXYY/100 -> you store 0XXYY 2
>> xxx.yy = XXXYY/100 -> you store XXXYY 2
>> xx     = 0XX00/100 -> you store 0XX00 0
>> x.y    = 00XY0/100 -> you store 00XY0 1
>
> Isn't that supposed to be ( last two )
>
> xx     = 000XX/100 -> you store 000XX 0
> x.y    = 000XY/100 -> you store 000XY 1

No, the second number stores the number of significant fractional digits 
for conversion and comparison, it is not an exponent of a normalized 
mantissa. I meant to write it the way I wrote it.

Jinx said that he needs to cover numbers to 10^5. I do not address this 
here but one could store another number for exponent *without* implying 
switching to fp.

Peter
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