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1. Offset binary format for float in java    stackoverflow.com

when i am looking at the wikipedia page for Offset Binary, i cant follow the following sentence:

Unusually however, instead of using "excess 2^(n-1)" it uses "excess ...

2. Read native binary stored float values    coderanch.com

If ever there was an answer that I badly need it is for the issue below, thanks in advance for anyone that has assistance. I have a legacy application that I need to read the data files from. The legacy application no longer exists. To store the data, it was written to a memo field in a DBase 4 database using ...

3. Issue with float to binary    coderanch.com

We need to convert Float to Binary and we are using the following APIs: 1) Float.floatToIntBits( 2) Integer.toBinaryString( The usage is: String = Integer.toBinaryString(Float.floatToIntBits( For most cases we get the correct Binary String. However, when the float variable has value = 8 digit integers, we run into the following problem: Problem: floatToIntBits Returns the SAME output for different Input values. ...

4. float binary makeup    coderanch.com

Hi guys , Im trying to figure out how java floats are stored in binary. The floatToRawIntBits method is supposed to yield an integer that can be masked to reveal the underlying float representation in terms of (1) exponent and a (2) significand... However, when i run the following code (to print exponent and significand for numbers 1 through 10) .... ...