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Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Conversion

on 2002-06-21 16:03:44 UTC
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:39:01 -0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Loaded Google with "inch mm convert", looked thru the first dozen or
>so returns until I found http://galaxies.com/Info/Math/Conversion.htm
>
>I got 39.3700787401575" per meter, took the 1/x of that using Windows
>calculator because of its nearly unlimited digit resolution.

And it's inaccuracy <G>

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Mike Carlton (Intel)
USC Information Sciences Institute

The Pentium (along with every other major microprocessor) uses the
IEEE 754 standard to represent floating point numbers. A floating-
point number stores a real number as sign*1.XXX*2^YYY, i.e. one
plus a fraction, raised to a power of two, along with the sign.
The XXX part is the mantissa and the YYY part is the exponent.

The IEEE standard defines a single-precision number to have a
23-bit mantissa. This provides 24-bit precision (counting the
leading one) and is equal to approximately 7 decimal digits.


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