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In the Twitter thread: "Have you seen fractional numbers in hex or octal notation?"
In the Twitter thread: "Have you seen fractional numbers in hex or octal notation?"
Literals like 0x1.123abcp-5 are now standard in C and C++.  The exponent (following 'p') is written in decimal.  The Handbook of Floating Point Arithmetic (Muller and about a thousand others) uses this format (sometimes without the 0x) to provide exact floating point constants.
Literals like 0x1.123abcp-5 are now standard in C and C++.  The exponent (following 'p') is written in decimal.  The Handbook of Floating Point Arithmetic (Muller and about a thousand others) uses this format (sometimes without the 0x) to provide exact floating point constants. -- Unsigned comment by [[User:John McKenna]], 7 July 2021 20:24

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In the Twitter thread: "Have you seen fractional numbers in hex or octal notation?" Literals like 0x1.123abcp-5 are now standard in C and C++. The exponent (following 'p') is written in decimal. The Handbook of Floating Point Arithmetic (Muller and about a thousand others) uses this format (sometimes without the 0x) to provide exact floating point constants. -- Unsigned comment by User:John McKenna, 7 July 2021 20:24