On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:49:05AM +0100, Tino Schwarze <tino.schwarze@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm just curious: What do you get by using 32-bit _float_? Why not use
> 1.31-Bit Fixed Point? It should have a higher precision than 32-bit
> float - at least, it's precision is steady.
as was mentioned already, 1.31 bit fixed point (which probably means sign
+ 31 bits mantissa) has a limited range compared to 32 bit fp.
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