Re: Converting binary floating point numbers to decimal?

On 8 May 2007 19:45:24 -0700, mike3 wrote:
On May 8, 8:27 pm, Dave Seaman <dsea...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 8 May 2007 17:58:25 -0700, mike3 wrote:

On May 8, 4:42 pm, Dave Seaman <dsea...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you really want to reinvent the wheel, you are more likely to get
useful answers in comp.programming or in
comp.lang.<your-favorite-language>.
Yeah, but I'm interested in the general mathematical algorithm,
which is independent of any specific programming languages,
hence my reason for coming to sci.math.

Have you checked out Knuth's _Seminumerical_Algorithms_ (Vol. 2 of
_The_Art_of_Computer_Programming_)? The material you are looking for is
in chapter 4.


No, I haven't checked out Knuth. I've been told the books are
really good, though. Are they?

Knuth is the bible of computer programming.



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