On Nov 29, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Neil Toronto wrote:

> This is because numbers in [4.0,8.0) have one fewer bit with which to 
> represent the fractional part than numbers in [2.0,4.0). That bit is needed 
> to represent the larger integer part.

Cute!  I want to assign this as an exam problem for my computer-architecture 
students.


Stephen Bloch
sbl...@adelphi.edu


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