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14 years ago

Floating point multiplication megafunction

Hello everyone, I am currently trying to use floating point multiplication megafunction. But I always get result 0 no matter what are the inputs. This is what I do: 1. Get into megawizard and ...
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14 years ago

He was saying by setting the exponential bits to 0 you are working with denormal values (no matter what you set the mantissa to). Here is a handy page I use for looking at the bit fields for single precision values: http://www.h-schmidt.net/floatapplet/ieee754.html