Morning! Den 2026-06-13 kl. 20:19, skrev Mouse:
Now I'm not getting what you mean :-) I try to rephrase:vax: With an (unbiased) exponent of zero and only the hidden bit set the decimal value is 0.5. ieee: With an (unbiased) exponent of zero and only the hidden bit set the decimal value is 1.0.Yes, this is exactly what I meant.
Ok, then we agree :-) [...]
The only difference between the two ways of thinking of IEEE, or between the two ways of thinking of VAX, is in the mental model; you end up with the same values regardless.Yep, exactly!
Anyway, bottom line here is that it will be reasonable simple to go ieee for vax this way.
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