Conversion into IEEE-754 (floating point)

Hi,

I need some help with the conversion of decimal numbers into
the IEEE-754 format (floating point).

There seem to be two possible formats. The one I need is defined
as follows:

Sm, C, M

with Sm = bit-vector representation of the mantissa sign
C = characteristic
M = bit-vector representation of abs(mantissa)

I could not find any information in the Internet how to practically
convert decimals into floating point numbers using C.

Could you help me out and perform a conversion, let's say for the
decimal 0.0745.

Thank you.

Chris

 

It is further alleged that on or about Sun, 12 Mar 2006 13:59:14
+0100, in alt.computer, the queezy keyboard of Christian Christmann
<> spewed the following:

|Hi,
|
|I need some help with the conversion of decimal numbers into
|the IEEE-754 format (floating point).
|
|There seem to be two possible formats. The one I need is defined
|as follows:
|
| Sm, C, M
|
|with Sm = bit-vector representation of the mantissa sign
| C = characteristic
| M = bit-vector representation of abs(mantissa)
|
|I could not find any information in the Internet how to practically
|convert decimals into floating point numbers using C.
|
|Could you help me out and perform a conversion, let's say for the
|decimal 0.0745.

Here is a java applet that converts IEEE-754:
http://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatApplet/IEEE754.html

And here is the search string:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...EEE-754+format+decimal+conversion&btnG=Search

 

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