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Re: Serialization of binary floating point numbers

To: Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Serialization of binary floating point numbers
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 17:23:57 +0200

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 08:58:35AM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> what I can see most of the modern hardware use 2's complement
> integer arithmetic and IEEE 754 floating point, but not sure if there
> are any specific exceptions I'm not aware of.

There are variations in the ieee 754 formats though, and all details depend
on your use case and the "portability" you are trying to achive.

Martin

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