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WuV: slides claim a codec for floats to strings is easy #135

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ComFreek opened this issue Aug 11, 2020 · 0 comments

ComFreek commented Aug 11, 2020

The IEEE 754-2008 standard revision does not state at all how floats are encoded/decoded from strings. Here's a PDF Google found for the otherwise closed-access standard.
In fact, choosing a human-friendly string representation is a non-trivial research question, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7153979/algorithm-to-convert-an-ieee-754-double-to-a-string.

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