On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, COPLIN, Nicholas. wrote: > how did we go from 0.5 (base 10) = 0.1 ? Your suggestion 0.101 (base 2) would be 2^-1 + 2^-3 = 0.5 + 0.125 = 0.625. See: 0.5 = 5*10^-1. You could also have converted it to binary by computing 5 / 10^1, or 101 / 1010 in binary. That gives 0.1 in binary. Marko - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi.
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