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Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures
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Camm Maguire |
Subject: |
Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures |
Date: |
21 May 2002 20:39:58 -0400 |
Greetings, and thanks!
So I guess the original gcl unnormalized values are the ones in error.
>From the definition then, are the unnormalized numbers *always*
(i.e. on all machines) the corresponding normalized values with the
mantissa set to 1?
Thanks again,
Richard Fateman <address@hidden> writes:
> The answers from Allegro CL
>
> (integer-decode-float least-positive-double-float)
> 1
> -1074
> 1
> cl-user(258): (integer-decode-float least-positive-normalized-double-float)
> 4503599627370496
> -1074
> 1
> cl-user(259): (integer-decode-float
> least-positive-normalized-single-float)
> 8388608
> -149
> 1
> cl-user(260): (integer-decode-float least-positive-single-float)
> 1
> -149
> 1
>
>
> So the least-positive-single-float is the unnormalized number that is
> quite a bit smaller than the least-positive-normalized-single-float.
> RJF
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- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures, (continued)
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures, Raymond Toy, 2002/05/21
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures, Richard Fateman, 2002/05/21
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures, Camm Maguire, 2002/05/21
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures, Raymond Toy, 2002/05/21
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures, Camm Maguire, 2002/05/21
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures, Richard Fateman, 2002/05/21
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures,
Camm Maguire <=
- Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures, Camm Maguire, 2002/05/22
Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] Bugs in gcl cause maxima build failures, Camm Maguire, 2002/05/20