Hi Peter.

Ok. But format is kind of strange.
Not sort of right align it and point where the point is located
from the right edge but rather assume that two rightmost positions
are always occupied by fractional part and second number displays
how may digits are actually used starting from the left edge
of that reservation. Fixed placement I would say. :)
( still good since separate byte is used for fractions )

WBR Dmitriy.



Peter wrote:
> 
> 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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