On 2010-03-30, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote:
> Hex floats are useful because you can get a string representation of
> the exact value of a binary floating point number. It should always
> be the case that
>
> float.fromhex(float.hex(x)) == x
Until you try running your program on a machine that represents floats
using a radix other than 2,4, or 16.
;)
And it works for NaN and Inf too!
It would have been nice to have had that 5-6 years ago when I had to
write my own pickle/unpickle methods for floating point values so that
inf and nan were portable between Windows and Linux.
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