note 106106 modified in language.types.float by danbrown

From: Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:00:34 +0000
Subject: note 106106 modified in language.types.float by danbrown
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Converting IEEE754 64 bit binary to float in 32bit php version: <?php function getDouble($bits) { if( strlen(binary_data)!=64 ) throw new Exception("wrong binary data"); $sign = $digits[0]; $exp = bindec(substr($bits, 1, 11)) - 1023; $mantissa_length = 30; // This is max workable length for 32bit representation of mantissa. We not use other (52-$mantissa_length bits) $man = (2 << ($mantissa_length-1)) + bindec(substr($bits, 12, $mantissa_length)); return $man * pow(2, $exp - $mantissa_length) * ($sign ? -1 : 1); } ?> --was-- Converting IEEE754 64 bit binary to float in 32bit php version: function getDouble($bits) { if( strlen(binary_data)!=64 ) throw new Exception("wrong binary data"); $sign = $digits[0]; $exp = bindec(substr($bits, 1, 11)) - 1023; $mantissa_length = 30; // This is max workable length for 32bit representation of mantissa. We not use other (52-$mantissa_length bits) $man = (2 << ($mantissa_length-1)) + bindec(substr($bits, 12, $mantissa_length)); return $man * pow(2, $exp - $mantissa_length) * ($sign ? -1 : 1); } http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.float.php

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