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Date 2008-05-30.18:13:24
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On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> 1. while taking the binary representation of an integer has a real
> meaning, taking the binary representation of a float only exposes an
> implementation detail, that is the internal layout of float numbers.
>
You may have misunderstood the proposal.  I read the proposal as
producing the true mathematical radix 2 representation of a float
rather than its 64-bit memory layout.
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