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A small little tool for dumping a floating-point number in its native format

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2012-11-21 · latest 2014-03-27

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  1. …Decimal('0.3000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125') You can also use my tool "dumpfp" ( https://github.com/haberman/dumpfp ) to inspect the value of a floating-point number in detail: $ ./dumpfp 0.1 Single Precision (IEEE…
    comment by haberman · 2014-03-27 · in Why doesn't GCC optimize a*a*a*a*a*a to (a*a*a)*(a*a*a)? (2013)
  2. Link to the Github repository, which is oddly missing from the post: https://github.com/haberman/dumpfp
    comment by pmr_ · 2012-11-25 · in Dumpfp: A Tool to Inspect Floating-Point Numbers
  3. …(and I'm learning a lot in the process). EDIT: got an initial revision out there; check out: https://github.com/haberman/dumpfp
    comment by haberman · 2012-11-21 · in What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic