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Anonymous Tue Oct 4 16:54:33 2011 No.3850031 [Reply] [Original]

Does sci know how many numbers can be encoded in IEEE754 ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 16:57:33 2011 No.3850045 im pretty sure google knows that

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 17:03:33 2011 No.3850073 File: 196 KB, 1156x657, flying_car.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3850045 At first i was like u but then i was like "fuck u google!"

>>	Marion Bartoli is my Waifu Tue Oct 4 17:08:33 2011 No.3850095 This question cannot be answered in any sensible fashion.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 17:17:33 2011 No.3850134 >>3850095 Wut? Get out here troll. Precision cases: single, double

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 17:24:33 2011 No.3850170 IEEE 574 covers a number of datatypes. The largest one has 128 bits. That's 2^128 possible numbers.

>>	Marion Bartoli is my Waifu Tue Oct 4 17:35:33 2011 No.3850215 >>3850170 But it isn't, due to infinities, NaNs, signed zero, etc.