On Sun, 18 Jun 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
First I off, I forgot one thing in my analysis of the bitness of Pd's integers: the sign. So its 20 bits, I forgot the bit for the sign ( -999999 to 999999). So this leads me to the question which Matju brought up: the internal representation (t_float) should be able to store 23 bits of integer information. Why does Pd only display up to 20bits on integer data? If Pd displayed 7 digits plus sign, it would cover the 23 bits...
if you include the sign as part of the mantissa, then it's 24 bits. you need slightly more than 7 digits to cover all that range. you also need to take the space taken by writing the decimal point.
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