[Openmcl-devel] Printing/Reading floats

[Christophe Rhodes]

Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker at fast.no> writes:

> Christophe Rhodes writes:
>  > IANAFPExpert, but would
>  > 
>  > (defun hypothetical-integer-encode-float (sig exp sign)
>  >   (float (* sign (/ sig (expt 2 exp)))))
>  > 
>  > be close?  Obviously there are issues wrt single/doubleness, but...
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> (defun hypothetical-integer-encode-float (sig exp sign)
>   (* sign (scale-float (float sig) exp)))
>
>         (Actually, I just tried this, in SBCL, with pi - didn't look
> to good :-)

Yeah, it wouldn't -- FLOAT gives you a single float.

you could instead use COERCE <stuff> *READ-DEFAULT-FLOAT-FORMAT*, or
somesuch... but I think this is beyond the hypothetical use of
HYPOTHETICAL-INTEGER-ENCODE-FLOAT :-)

Cheers,

Christophe
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