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 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users