Subj : Re: Any help on why?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder
Date : Wed Jul 07 2004 12:34 pm

Wayne A. King wrote:

>I wrote

>>float pi = 3.1415;
>>Looks like 400 is the mantisa

Exponent

>Output (16-bit DOS program, TC++ 3.0 used):
>The number 3.141500 is 0.785375 times two to the power of 2

And this tells us what? about the structure of a double?
Does it in any way show that 2^2 is x400?

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